Welcome to The Self-Styled Scholar. You can also call this blog the “DIY Philosopher’s Haven” or something to that effect, if you wish.

I’m a 20-something American just trying to get through life, and while my life is pretty boring, I sure seem to have a lot to say about it.

This is a space for reflective inquiry.
I write interpretive essays on identity, culture, psychology, language, and meaning-making—often through personal experience, symbolic analysis, and careful engagement with frameworks like Jungian theory.

This is not a performance space or a platform for slogans. My thinking is context-dependent, open to revision, and intentionally unfinished. I’m interested less in certainty than in how people orient themselves—what their stories do for them, and where they quietly constrain them.

I appreciate your stopping by, and hope your visit enlightened you somehow.

Featured image by Maria Louceiro.