Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. [attributed to Alan Watts, who did often use the image in this sense in his talks, if not in these exact words]
「陳述分析過程結果的聲明」這一意義出現於1660年代。心理學上的用法則始於1890年。英語中曾經也有名詞analyse(1630年代),來自法語analyse,而法語又源自中古拉丁語analysis。短語in the final (or last) analysis(1844年)翻譯自法語en dernière analyse。