seeing an old photograph without realising that it is of oneself, of “I”, “me”, “my

a self-conscious subject is not just aware of something that merely happens to be themselves, as one is if one sees an old photograph without realising that it is of oneself.

 Rather a self-conscious subject is aware of themselves as themselves; it is manifest to them that they themselves are the object of awareness. 

Self-consciousness is a form of consciousness that is paradigmatically expressed in English by the words “I”, “me”, and “my”, terms that each of us uses to refer to ourselves as such.