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Identity is thought to be a universal and timeless core, an ‘essence’ of the self that is expressed as representations recognisable by ourselves and others. It is this whole self that is healthy, while a divided one is sick, as Porter (1997) puts it (on the changing nature of the modern self, see Gergen, 1991, 2000; Rose, 1996, though).
I want to start to explore the way the self has been conceptualised— throughout history—by focusing on a number of recurring themes: using them as a way of isolating the key questions we need to reflect upon to make sense of the emergence and transformation of the self.
- Frank Furedi
- 2019
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The Self and Its History. LYNN HUNT. Historians have long been allergic to psychological forms of explanation, seems unlikely that many will be eager to jump on the bandwagon of or neurohistory. Despite many reasons for caution, an ongoing dialogue. roscience offers the prospect of new approaches to such perennially vexed.
Aug 15, 2019 · I want to start to explore the way the self has been conceptualised—throughout history—by focusing on a number of recurring themes: using them as a way of isolating the key questions we need to reflect upon to make sense of the emergence and transformation of the self.
- Frank Furedi
- 2019
Jan 1, 2004 · PDF | History always remembers people who selflessly devote themselves to the betterment of their fellow beings but it seldom recalls those who are... | Find, read and cite all the research you...
Jun 23, 2016 · I distinguish 4 overlapping and intersecting axes along which discourses of the self present themselves: (1) interiority and outer orientation; (2) stability and flexibility; (3) holism and fragmentation; and (4) self-control and dispossession.
Oct 27, 2014 · Being denotes permanence. Nothingness, Eliot points out, cannot inform human reality because it never forms part of the present. For this reason, possibility—what might have been—is hemmed in by what has actually taken place: Footfalls echo in the memory. Down the passage which we did not take. Towards the door we never opened.
