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The Journal of Nervous and Mental... Mar 1999The biological basis of the self is discussed in relation to neuropsychological findings in cases with focal brain injury. This material demonstrates that the self is...
The biological basis of the self is discussed in relation to neuropsychological findings in cases with focal brain injury. This material demonstrates that the self is deposited at an early phase in the process of object realization and distributes into the private space of imagery and the external space of object perception. A disruption or truncation of this process results in an erosion of the self that is similar across the different perceptual modalities. From the pattern of pathological breakdown, it is concluded that the self is a categorical, relational entity that achieves autonomy in the context of an act of cognition that is fully derived, i.e., actualizes completely. The autonomy depends on the completeness of this derivation. The preliminary locus of the self in the mental state entails a holistic or multimodal phase of potential before perceptual individuation. The relation of the self-concept to antecedent phases in the microgenesis of a cognition, the relation to feeling, personal history, and the immediate past, points to a limbic transition in the outward development of the mental state.
Topics: Cognition; Consciousness; Ego; Hallucinations; Humans; Illusions; Models, Psychological; Neuropsychology; Object Attachment; Reality Testing; Self Concept; Volition
PubMed: 10086469
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Cognition & Emotion Jun 2018How is nostalgia positioned among self-relevant emotions? We tested, in six studies, which self-relevant emotions are perceived as most similar versus least similar to...
How is nostalgia positioned among self-relevant emotions? We tested, in six studies, which self-relevant emotions are perceived as most similar versus least similar to nostalgia, and what underlies these similarities/differences. We used multidimensional scaling to chart the perceived similarities/differences among self-relevant emotions, resulting in two-dimensional models. The results were revealing. Nostalgia is positioned among self-relevant emotions characterised by positive valence, an approach orientation, and low arousal. Nostalgia most resembles pride and self-compassion, and least resembles embarrassment and shame. Our research pioneered the integration of nostalgia among self-relevant emotions.
Topics: Arousal; Ego; Emotions; Humans; Models, Psychological
PubMed: 28738756
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2017.1351331 -
Revista de Neurologia Apr 2010
Topics: Brain; Consciousness; Ego; Humans; Neurons
PubMed: 20387206
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Explore (New York, N.Y.) 2012
Topics: Ego; Humans; Self Concept
PubMed: 22560750
DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2012.02.007 -
The Psychoanalytic Quarterly Apr 1999Self-envy is described as the consequence of an early split between different part objects which form the structure of the oedipus complex. This takes place between an...
Self-envy is described as the consequence of an early split between different part objects which form the structure of the oedipus complex. This takes place between an excluded destructive child part and another part usually modeled on a harmonic parental couple or on a creative and successful adult. The former will attack, paralyze, or destroy the latter, out of envy within the self. There are three main advantages in using an intrapsychic interpretation: (a) avoiding possible transference collusion in paranoid or perverse borderline structures; (b) eliminating possible persecutory anxiety from superego part objects projected into the analyst; and (c) putting the conflict in the right place, inasmuch as transference is a projection of internal conflicts. Clinical material is presented.
Topics: Adult; Ego; Humans; Oedipus Complex; Psychoanalytic Interpretation
PubMed: 10432531
DOI: 10.1002/j.2167-4086.1999.tb00531.x -
The British Journal of Sociology Mar 1992The body is socially constructed; and in this paper we explore the various and ever-changing constructions of the body, and thus of the embodied self, from the Greeks to... (Review)
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The body is socially constructed; and in this paper we explore the various and ever-changing constructions of the body, and thus of the embodied self, from the Greeks to the present. The one word, body, may therefore signify very different realities and perceptions of reality; and we consider briefly how and why these meanings changed. Plato believed the body was a 'tomb', Paul said it was the 'temple' of the Holy Spirit, the Stoic philosopher Epictetus taught that it was a 'corpse'. Christians believed, and believe, that the body is not only physical, but also spiritual and mystical, and many believed it was an allegory of church, state and family. Some said it was cosmic: one with the planets and the constellations. Descartes wrote that the body is a 'machine', and this definition has underpinned biomedicine to this day; but Sartre said that the body is the self. In sum, the body has no intrinsic meaning. Populations create their own meanings, and thus their own bodies; but how they create, and then change them, and why, reflects the social body.
Topics: Ego; Humans; Models, Psychological; Philosophy; Sociology
PubMed: 1600447
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Psychoanalytic Review Apr 2009
Topics: Ego; Humans; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychoanalytic Therapy
PubMed: 19374570
DOI: 10.1521/prev.2009.96.2.183 -
Annals of the New York Academy of... Oct 2011In this paper I briefly sketch a theory that answers the question "what is the self?," where this question is understood in a scientific sense that includes both natural...
In this paper I briefly sketch a theory that answers the question "what is the self?," where this question is understood in a scientific sense that includes both natural science and systematic fundamental metaphysics. As selves, we are essentially rational human minded animals or real persons in a fully natural and desperately non-ideal world-animals with meaningful lives, for better or worse.
Topics: Ego; Humans; Metaphysics; Philosophy; Self Concept
PubMed: 21988258
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06124.x -
The Journal of Analytical Psychology Sep 2014This paper is an exploration of the relationship between nurturing in all its contexts--among them, the nursing couple and the therapeutic relationship--and the... (Review)
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This paper is an exploration of the relationship between nurturing in all its contexts--among them, the nursing couple and the therapeutic relationship--and the evolution of an individual self. The ideas are illustrated by a case vignette of a Russian patient. An attempt is made to show that when the self as an integral unity of body and soul is addressed in the analytic setting, 'nutritional dreams' emerge as expressions of the self-in-action. Certain psycholinguistic features of the Russian cultural context are described which suggest a link of meaning between development of the self and secure parenting. This linguistic association may facilitate the process of self-centering.
Topics: Adult; Dreams; Ego; Female; Humans; Jungian Theory; Russia
PubMed: 25155676
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The International Journal of... Apr 2011Clinical material is presented from an analysand whose defense of withdrawal to 'a private internal space' was mobilized when she became confused, within her... (Review)
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Clinical material is presented from an analysand whose defense of withdrawal to 'a private internal space' was mobilized when she became confused, within her relationships and within the transference, about whose understanding of a shared event was 'real.' Analysis of the defense as resistance revealed a disrupted sense of connection to others and to the analyst in the face of the difficulty in determining a consensual reality. This was accompanied by emotional withdrawal, with a complex fantasy of retreat to a protective inner hiding place, or cocoon. The phenomenology and functions of such withdrawals, the fantasies accompanying them, and the ways in which they changed during the analysis are discussed in this paper. For the patient described, the analysis of her shifting 'cocoon' states and of the fantasies connected with them eventually enabled her to access her creative 'private self' more freely and with less conflict.
Topics: Adult; Awareness; Conflict, Psychological; Defense Mechanisms; Ego; Fantasy; Fear; Female; Humans; Internal-External Control; Object Attachment; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Reality Testing; Transference, Psychology
PubMed: 21518364
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2011.00406.x