profusion of compound words built on "self"

Walter E. Bezanson finely describes how important are terms of self and "the profusion of compound words built on 'self'" in Melville's Clarel:

If abdication from family, community, country, and creed has set most of the pilgrims loose from the institutions which ordinarily give men definable social roles, what is left?  Personality, character, self, soul—these suggest the remnant.  The preferred term of the poem is “self,” and the profusion of compound words built on “self” defines one of the energy centers of the poem.  At odds with the societies to which they belonged, they have variously mutinied or been shipwrecked.  We have here an assortment of Western men, cast away, as it were, on the Palestinian beach, jointly engaged in the struggle for moral and psychic survival.

(Intro to Hendricks House Clarel; and
Historical and Critical Note, Northwestern-Newberry Clarel, 579)

A footnote gives 21 examples in Clarel including self-love, self-consumings and self-exiled.

Well!  In Scenes and Adventures in the Army, especially Part II with the dialogues from "Scenes Beyond the Western Border" between the narrator and his Imaginary Friend, we find the same thing Bezanson observed in Clarel.  Here we have Western men before they washed up in Palestine: still as yet on the prairie of the American West, traveling and conversing as ever about literature and philosophy, art, astronomy and religion.

Alongside Bezanson's 21 in Clarel, I give you 15 from Scenes and Adventures in the Army including "self consuming" and two instances of "self-exiled":

Completely isolated, and beyond support, or even communication — self-dependent in any emergency that might arise, and in the midst of many thousands of Indians, whose concentration our long stay seemed to invite, the utmost vigilance was maintained.  (Scenes and Adventures, p56)

Fashion decides that modesty is not wanting in this self-praise;  (Scenes and Adventures p76)

Self-love dries up the sources of sympathy (Scenes and Adventures, 193-4)

these border inhabitants — self-willed and presumptuous, because ignorant. (Scenes and Adventures, p42)

a class of self-exiled wanderers and hunters, whose restless or savage natures, lead them to sever every tie of kindred and country (Scenes and Adventures, 134)

 the abusive, yet vigorous, the self-important Globe, (September 1851)

Capitalists great enough to be self-insured, must be "pound foolish," in appearance to you small-fry operators. (December 1851)

— Thy monologue I endured, whilst it touched of earth; but when self-forgetting, thou transformedst thy true friend to a spirit minister of hardly dubious sex, — who methinks, would wander here, from no comfortable abode of earth or sky —  [from Scenes Beyond the Western Border, December 1851 installment] 

....leading and protecting those pioneers and missionaries of civilization, the Oregon emigrants; the rude founders of a State. Self-exiled and led by a human instinct....      (April 1852); "self-exiled" etc. added in revision of Oregon, Ho!

And Cortez, like Columbus, was self-made ; (May 1852)

how magnanimous is their patience, their self-denial and devotion!  (June 1852)

 their men are idle, and have more use for mirrors in self-adornment: (July 1852)

— A false and self-consuming fire! that sometimes burns to ashes the hearts and hopes of proud men...[Scenes and Adventures, p 333. Ooh, look how the term "self-consuming" results from revision of the original dialogue as it appeared in the July 1852 Southern Literary Messenger:  "I. F. Ay!  it is a fire that consumes; and sometimes burns to ashes the hearts and hopes of proud men..."]

the noblest oak, which trails its tender foliage high over the many self-dependent neighbors, (August 1852)

the boasted easy self-possession of civilized refinement,  (May 1853)