the perceptions that others have of us and perspectives on ourselves.

  the perceptions that others have of us have to be mediated through our imaginations where we are sort of adopting imaginative perspectives on ourselves. imagination plays a key role in the formation of self-conception,.

And self-conception is basically just how we define or identify ourselves. In a sense, your self-conception gives you a view of yourself as a person in the world, and it is distinct from your point of view, And Mackenzie says that we shape our self concepts by reflecting on different aspects of our points of view. And these aspects might include our desires, our habits, our character traits.