Self-assertion

• Date: 1806

Definitions

• 1 : the act of asserting oneself or one's own rights, claims, or opinions
• 2 : the act of asserting one's superiority over others
• 3 : the action of asserting one's individuality, or insisting upon one's claims or one's supremacy.

Reference

For a poignant illustration of the term self-assertion:

• see Martin Heidegger's (in)famous Rectoral Inaugural address entitled The Self-Assertion of the German University and The Rectorate 1933