self-confinement

self-confinement (countable and uncountable, plural self-confinements)

1. Self-imposed restriction of movement to a particular location.
   • 2002, Walter Herbert Sokel, The Myth of Power and the Self: Essays on Franz Kafka, page 73:

     Nothing short of the lifelong self-confinement in the innermost chamber of a deserted cellar, of which he speaks to Felice, would seem to satisfy such rigorous requirements for concentration.

   • 2022, Lorelei Bell, Ascension:

     A fine, self-confinement, and a trial.

   • 2022, Paula von Gleich, The Black Border and Fugitive Narration in Black American Literature, page 56:

     The invisible man's self-confinement in a basement clearly recalls Harriet Jacob's self-confinement in the attic space in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1865).

   • 2022, Antonia Ferrer-Torres, Lydia Giménez-Llort, “Confinement and the Hatred of Sound in Times of COVID-19: A Molotov Cocktail for People with Misophonia”, in Lydia Gimenez-Llort, Marie-José H. E. Gijsberts, Efosa Kenneth Oghagbon, editors, Death and Mourning Processes in the Times of the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19), page 265:

     A retrospective analysis using a physical-psychological-social inventory of 10 variables evaluated the number of individuals that during confinement and self-confinement (March 11 - June 29, 2020) canceled (mostly M-) and/or requested a therapeutic intervention, the reasons for their request, and the strategies they used to self-manage the situation.

2. An internalized restriction of one's emotions and behavior to a limited range that is considered acceptable; an inability to fully express oneself.
   • 2002, Armand Hatchuel, “Sources of intensity in work organizations”, in Peter Docherty, Jan Forslin, Abraham B. Shani, editors, Creating Sustainable Work Systems, page 49:

     Intensity in the white collar world is the result of limited self-design, high prescription and self-confinement: it appears through permanent knowledge shortage, short-term solutions and relational instability.

   • 2010, Kwok-kan Tam, Terry Siu-han Yip, Gender, Discourse and the Self in Literature, page 12:

     Zhang Xinxin makes it clear to the readers that the liberation of the self under socialism can easily become another form of self-confinement if it demands or results in the negation of the self, especially the female self, or denies the individual of his or her distinct identity.

   • 2013, Dr. Max Hammer, Dr. Barry J. Hammer, Dr. Alan C. Butler, Psychological Healing Through Creative Self-Understanding and Self-Transformation, page 462:

     In addition, that blocked life energy, recoiled and trapped within the selfish ego, produces negative feelings such as tension, fear, anger, self-confinement, and various other forms of inner and outer negativity.

   • 2015, Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Property and Power in English Gothic Literature, page 66:

     In fact, there is only one form of confinement for which the Gothic offers little hope for escape: the self-confinement that results from internalization of social regulation, like that posited by Foucault.

   • 2017, Marcus Steinweg, The Terror of Evidence, page 45:

     There is no self-confinement that is not narcissistic.

3. (physics) A restriction in the movement of particles due to their internal properties (such as charge).
   • 2012, Xavier Marie, Naci Balkan, Semiconductor Modeling Techniques, page 183:

     The higher the injected carrier density, the stronger the self-confinement effect of carriers Silver et al. have predicted that lasing could occur even in type II structures; this has been shown experimentally at low temperature in InAsSb/lnAs multiple quantum well laser structure emitting in the midwavelength infrared region.

   • 2013, Bruno Crosignani, “Self-Induced Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers: A Unified Approach”, in D.B. Ostrowsky, E. Spitz, editors, New Directions in Guided Wave and Coherent Optics, page 23:

     In particular, these considerations apply to a class of nonlinear effects which includes self-phase modulation (2), envelope soliton propagation (3), longitudinal self-confinement (4), degene rate four-wave mixing (5)(6) and nonlinear modal noise (7); all of these are third-order self-induced effects, that is the nonlinear polarizability with which they are connected is cubic in the propagating field and vibrates at (approximately) its frequency.

   • 2014, André Balogh, Andrei Bykov, Peter Cargill, Microphysics of Cosmic Plasmas, page 148:

     The backbone of the DSA is a self-confinement of accelerated particles by scattering off various magnetic perturbations that particles drive by themselves while streaming ahead of the shock.

   • 2022, Andrea Redaelli, Fabio Pellizzer, Semiconductor Memories and Systems, page 254:

     Self-confinement and electrode engineering can then reduce the expected programming current increase.