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'Enjoy Oneself' As Behavioural Process
First Analysis:
This is not a mental process, because
(i) himself is not the Phenomenon that he is enjoying;(ii) the unmarked present tense is 'present in present', like behavioural and material clauses.
The clause is agnate with he is enjoying [[what he is doing]],
so himself serves the same function as the Behaviour what he is doing.
Here 'enjoy' adds an emotional feature to a behavioural Process.
Final Analysis:
In the case of this reflexive verb, the Range of the Process is better analysed as included in the Process itself (like behaving himself):
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