Constructing The Self

Author : Valerie Gray Hardcastle
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027252092
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing the Self written by Valerie Gray Hardcastle and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructing the Self analyzes the narrative conception of self, filling a serious gap in philosophy and grounding discussion in other disciplines. It answers the questions: • What are the connections between our interpretations, selfhood, and conscious phenomenal experience? • Why do we believe that our interpretations of our life-defining events are narrative in nature? • From the myriad of thoughts, actions, and emotions which constitute our experiences, how do we choose what is interpretively important, the tiny subset that composes the self? By synthesizing the different approaches to understanding the self from philosophy of mind, developmental psychology, psychopathology, and cognitive science, this monograph gives us deeper insight into what being minded, being a person, and having a self are, as well as clarifies the difference and relation between conscious and unconscious mental states and normal and abnormal minds. The explication also affords new perspectives on human development and human emotion. (Series A)

Author : Philip Cushman
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing The Self, Constructing America written by Philip Cushman and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995-03-20 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking "cultural history of psychotherapy", historian and psychologist Philip Cushman shows how the development of modern psychotherapy is inextricably intertwined with that of the United States and how it has fundamentally changed the way Americans view events and themselves. Using an interpretive historical approach, Cushman shows how and why psychotherapy was created, what its functions are, and how it has come to play such an enormous role in American life. Asserting that each era develops a different conception of "what it means to be human", Cushman traces the evolution of the self throughout history to contemporary times, naming its current configuration in our consumerist society the "empty self", one that needs constant filling. In Constructing the Self, Constructing America, he places psychotherapy in its social and historical context, and examines its origins in the nineteenth century to its preeminence in American life today, arguing that its establishment as a social institution may in fact reproduce some of the very ills that it is meant to heal. Finally, in an unusual move, Cushman suggests a way to use interpretive methods in the everyday practice of psychotherapy. By doing so, he hopes to dissuade both patient and therapist from colluding with the empty self or the rampant consumerism of our time.

Author : Cynthia Carter Ching
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521513324
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing the Self in a Digital World written by Cynthia Carter Ching and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the relationship between identity and technology in the learning and lives of young people.

Author : Debra Grodin
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452247900
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing the Self in a Mediated World written by Debra Grodin and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1996-01-18 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today′s media-saturated world, identities are no longer built solely within the close-knit communities of family, neighborhood, school, and work. Today media are part of our world and therefore play an important role in the formulations of our identities or constructions of self. In a truly postmodern mode, Constructing the Self in a Mediated World not only brings together the usually segregated areas of interpersonal and mass communication but also incorporates works from scholars in sociology, psychology, and women′s studies as well. Each essay examines our understanding of self in a different context of mediated culture within a specific framework of interpretive theories such as critical theory, social constructionist theory, and feminism. This volume provides insights into issues of self and identity in contemporary mediated culture. Designed for advanced students and experienced researchers in communication (both media and interpersonal), sociology, psychology, and women′s studies. Constructing the Self in a Mediated World raises important questions and contributes greatly to its field.

Author : Antonio Damasio
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307379493
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self Comes to Mind written by Antonio Damasio and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the brain makes that mind conscious. Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years researching and and revealing how the brain works. Here, in his most ambitious and stunning work yet, he rejects the long-standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, and presents compelling new scientific evidence that posits an evolutionary perspective. His view entails a radical change in the way the history of the conscious mind is viewed and told, suggesting that the brain’s development of a human self is a challenge to nature’s indifference. This development helps to open the way for the appearance of culture, perhaps one of our most defining characteristics as thinking and self-aware beings.

Author : Anna Poletti
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299296431
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity Technologies written by Anna Poletti and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identity Technologies is a substantial contribution to the fields of autobiography studies, digital studies, and new media studies, exploring the many new modes of self-expression and self-fashioning that have arisen in conjunction with Web 2.0, social networking, and the increasing saturation of wireless communication devices in everyday life. This volume explores the various ways that individuals construct their identities on the Internet and offers historical perspectives on ways that technologies intersect with identity creation. Bringing together scholarship about the construction of the self by new and established authors from the fields of digital media and auto/biography studies, Identity Technologies presents new case studies and fresh theoretical questions emphasizing the methodological challenges inherent in scholarly attempts to account for and analyze the rise of identity technologies. The collection also includes an interview with Lauren Berlant on her use of blogs as research and writing tools.

Author : Shaun Gallagher
Publisher : OUP UK
ISBN 13 : 0199548013
Total Pages : 759 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Self written by Shaun Gallagher and published by OUP UK. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Self explores a fascinating diversity of questions about our understanding of self from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, including philosophy, ethics, psychology, neuroscience, psychopathology, narrative, and postmodern theories.

Author : Donald H. Ford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429655711
Total Pages : 883 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humans as Self-Constructing Living Systems written by Donald H. Ford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987, the purpose of this title was to develop a conceptual framework for understanding individual humans as complex, functional entities. It was felt that a sound developmental theory of human personality and behaviour would help synthesize existing scientific and clinical information into a coherent representation of a person as a functional unit, guide future research, and facilitate the work of the health and human services professions. The volume is aimed at a multidisciplinary-multiprofessional audience.

Author : Robert C. Hauhart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351689142
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lonely Quest written by Robert C. Hauhart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the United States is a country divided along lines of gender, economic inequality, educational level, and political affiliation. Democrats typically select a different range of matters of serious public concern compared to Republicans. Many Americans describe difficulty in coming to terms with the demands placed on them in their work, communities, and personal lives and achieving satisfaction. The institutional crises that pervade our politics, economy, educational systems, and communities have inspired a contemporary crisis: a widespread inability for many to live as integrated, effective selves in the twenty-first century United States. Drawing on a wide range of historical and contemporary research, The Lonely Quest explores the dilemma of constructing the self in the U.S. today.

Author : James Decker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113423838X
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Miller and Narrative Form written by James Decker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bold study James M. Decker argues against the commonly held opinion that Henry Miller’s narratives suffer from ‘formlessness’. He instead positions Miller as a stylistic pioneer, whose place must be assured in the American literary canon. From Moloch to Nexus through such widely-read texts as Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Decker examines what Miller calls his ‘spiral form’, a radically digressive style that shifts wildly between realism and the fantastic. Drawing on a variety of narratological and critical sources, as well as Miller’s own aesthetic theories, he highlights that this fragmented narrative style formed part of a sustained critique of modern spiritual decay. A deliberate move rather than a compositional weakness, then, Miller’s style finds a wide variety of antecedents in the work of such figures as Nietzsche, Rabelais, Joyce, Bergson and Whitman, and is viewed by Decker as an attempt to chart the journey of the self through the modern city. Henry Miller and Narrative Form affords readers new insights into some of the most challenging writings of the twentieth century and provides a template for understanding the significance of an extraordinary and inventive narrative form.