To Become The Self One Is

Author : Thomas Metzinger
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262263807
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being No One written by Thomas Metzinger and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-08-20 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenomenal selves, as they appear in conscious experience. The phenomenal self, however, is not a thing but an ongoing process; it is the content of a "transparent self-model." In Being No One, Metzinger, a German philosopher, draws strongly on neuroscientific research to present a representationalist and functional analysis of what a consciously experienced first-person perspective actually is. Building a bridge between the humanities and the empirical sciences of the mind, he develops new conceptual toolkits and metaphors; uses case studies of unusual states of mind such as agnosia, neglect, blindsight, and hallucinations; and offers new sets of multilevel constraints for the concept of consciousness. Metzinger's central question is: How exactly does strong, consciously experienced subjectivity emerge out of objective events in the natural world? His epistemic goal is to determine whether conscious experience, in particular the experience of being someone that results from the emergence of a phenomenal self, can be analyzed on subpersonal levels of description. He also asks if and how our Cartesian intuitions that subjective experiences as such can never be reductively explained are themselves ultimately rooted in the deeper representational structure of our conscious minds.

Author : Carl Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684225835
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Therapist's View of Personal Goals written by Carl Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 Reprint of the 1960 Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In this essay, delivered as an address at Haverford College, Pennsylvania in 1959, Rogers discusses man's purpose and goal in life. In his therapeutic work Rogers sees clients take such directions as: away from facades; away from "oughts"; away from meeting expectations; away from pleasing others; toward being a process; toward being a complexity; toward openness to experience; toward acceptance of others; toward trust of self. Given a therapeutic climate of warmth, acceptance, and empathic understanding, the client moves from what he is not toward "being," toward becoming that which he inwardly and actually is. Quoting Kierkegaard, "to be that self which one truly is." A worthy goal indeed.

Author : Sharon Numa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000631249
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Being One's Self written by Sharon Numa and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Being One’s Self emerges from discussions in John Steiner’s Workshop and investigates the meanings of self and identity, including the many ways in which the development of personal identity can be subverted, interrogating what can facilitate the development of a reasonably stable identity. The variety of problems that can arise in relation to the development of a unique identity is reflected in rich clinical material that vividly illustrates ‘identities’ felt to be weak, unformed, fluid or brittle, in many cases demonstrating how the sense of self is held together by pathological defences and organisations. The book examines several long-term adult analytic cases, suggesting that a mature personal identity involves not only ‘knowing who one is’ but also the capacity for empathic identification with the experience of others as separate human beings. The question of ‘having’ an identity, or the fear of losing it, is a central concern of individuals, and this volume, which will be of interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists alike, considers these issues by looking at the deepest conflicts around self and identity as they emerge and are relived in the transference relationship.

Author : Clifford S. Stagoll
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438493282
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming One's Self written by Clifford S. Stagoll and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William James (1842–1910) authored some of America's most original and evocative philosophy and psychology. Until recently, however, his work in ethics attracted little interest, despite suggestions from such distinguished peers as John Dewey that ethical themes suffused his writings. Taking those suggestions seriously, Clifford S. Stagoll provides an original and rigorous interpretation of James's ethics as a response to the socio-economic circumstances of his day, derived from key themes in his metaphysics, philosophical psychology, philosophy of religion, and pedagogical theory. By considering these apparently disparate projects together, Stagoll shows how James's recommendations for pursuing a richer, more rewarding life—an ethics in the classical sense—are justified by intricate and sophisticated analyses of how we think, act, and conceive of ourselves. For James, making a habit of experimenting with life's myriad opportunities is not just a way to counter thinking that has grown too rigid, but a crucial precondition for making the most of one's life and self.

Author : William Theodore De Bary
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231074261
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning for One's Self written by William Theodore De Bary and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well known as a scholar of Asian culture, de Bary examines the concepts of self-understanding and self-cultivation in neo-Confucian thought from the 12th to the 17th centuries, in relation to the social, political, and scholarly roles of educated men in late imperial China. Rejecting the notion that

Author : Sabrina Gregory
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440129770
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being True to One's Self. written by Sabrina Gregory and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of life’s experiencing and challenges. Looking in the window of my soul. Take a bite out of life and liking it.

Author : C.D. Wright
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619321068
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Big Self written by C.D. Wright and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle, which she uses to evoke the haunted quality of our carnal existence.”—The New Yorker Inspired by numerous visits inside Louisiana state prisons—where MacArthur Fellow C.D. Wright served as a “factotum” for a portrait photographer—One Big Self bears witness to incarcerated men and women and speaks to the psychic toll of protracted time passed in constricted space. It is a riveting mosaic of distinct voices, epistolary pieces, elements from a moralistic board game, road signage, prison data, inmate correspondence, and “counts” of things—from baby’s teeth to chigger bites: Count your folding money Count the times you said you wouldn’t go back Count your debts Count the roaches when the light comes on Count your kids after the housefire One Big Self—originally published as a large-format limited edition that featured photographs and text—was selected by The New York Times and The Village Voice as a notable book of the year. This edition features the poem exclusively. C.D. Wright is the author of ten books of poetry, including several collaborations with photographer Deborah Luster. She is a professor at Brown University.

Author : Margaret L. McLaughlin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113543834X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explaining One's Self To Others written by Margaret L. McLaughlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To date, the study of communicated explanations has been, at best, unsystematic. There has been little recognition that many, if not most, explanations are eventually delivered to a hearer or hearers. These potential audiences constrain the way the explanation is ultimately shaped. Similarly, researchers have devoted themselves to the study of "accounts," for the most part without an accompanying interest in the fundamental processes of event comprehension. This volume is devoted to bridging the gap between these two traditions.

Author : Catherine Robinson
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 081565135X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beside One's Self written by Catherine Robinson and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it to feel homeless? How does it feel to be without the orienting geography of home? Going beyond homelessness as a housing issue, this book uniquely explores the embodied, emotional experiences of homelessness. In doing so, Robinson reveals much about existing gaps in service responses, in community perceptions, and in the ways in which homelessness most often becomes visible as a problem for policy makers. She argues that the emotional dimension of displacement must be central to contemporary practices of researching, understanding, writing, and responding to homelessness. She situates the issue of homelessness at the nexus of important, broader intellectual and methodological developments that take bodily and spatial experience as their starting point. Drawing on field research and interviews, Robinson details the lives of homeless individuals in Sydney, Australia. The moving narratives of these individuals bear witness to the key experiences of corporeal fragmentation, geographical detachment, and social alienation. At the book’s core lies a call to legitimize scholarly work that focuses on emotions, particularly trauma, facilitating researchers and policy makers to explore new avenues for evaluating service delivery. Beside One’s Self bridges the divide between research that has policy implications and research that makes theoretical contributions.

Author : Julie Bonetti
Publisher : EI Alliance
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energetic Invocations Series: A Book of Vibrational Change - Part One - Self written by Julie Bonetti and published by EI Alliance. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PART 1: This book is about changing your thoughts and beliefs, and working with the energy surrounding them, as a way to change your life. Along with “Energetic Invocations” is Part One–Self. This Section addresses who you are and think you are, and who people have labeled you to be; emphasizes what self-care is and isn’t and why it is important; and asks what your life would look like if you weren’t sick, understood healthcare is a business and redefined charity. “Energetic Invocations Series: A Book of Vibrational Change, Volumes 1-17,” includes the full version (all 5 Parts) with the potent Process This components, which offer real-life situations and contemplations for every section. “Energetic Invocations: A Book of Vibrational Change” and “Energetic Invocations Series: A Book of Vibrational Change – Volumes 1-17, with Process This (with real-life situations and contemplations) have been inspiring readers everywhere to do the work to quiet “out there,” analyze thoughts and beliefs, and work with the energy all around to find their own truths and make change. Now you can also hear the authors candidly discuss why they wrote this book, how powerful “Energetic Invocations” are to help you refocus your life, and the essence and energy of all five parts of the book, in their podcast episodes “Energetic Invocations and Process This – The Author’s Cut,” in their podcast series “Let’s Talk About Energy: Ours and Yours” available on Spotify, iHeart Radio, Anchor, “Alexa,” and everywhere! Buy the book, absorb the authors’ energized discussions, invest in yourself and do the work, and be a part of your own self-empowerment journey! From the Authors: If you have any interest in things other than people’s stories, complaints and drama, and feel that there is something else out there, you’re right, there is. And that’s where we are. Social media, television, movies, other self-help books are unfulfilling. They just perpetuate an empty feeling. If you are interested in what everyone else is doing, keep supporting them. Yet, if you are interested in accessing something else within yourself and all around you, our books help to open the door to magick, science, creativity, and psychic ability. We work with energy. What does that mean? Everyone wants to talk to us or be in our conversations. So, we wrote about what we know and have experienced. If you want to be in our conversations, listen to our podcasts. Otherwise, read our books, that’s where the energy is. Find our books on our Amazon Author pages. Also visit: https://fanlink.to/EiAlliance Also visit links there to find collaborations, books, ebooks and podcast shows like these: “Your Presence Is Required” (NEW) “Write, Now! with Julie B” (NEW) “Let’s Talk About Energy, Ours & Yours” “The Kybalion: A Conversation” “Ancient Texts – The Genealogy of Energy” “Oprah! Can You Hear Me? Oprah vs. Donald 2020”