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2. Collective Action and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Case of the Panama Papers Protest in Iceland
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Jón Gunnar Bernburg, Félagsfræði-, mannfræði- og þjóðfræðideild (HÍ), Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics (UI), Félagsvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Social Sciences (UI), Háskóli Íslands, and University of Iceland
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Self-fullfilling prophecy ,Panama ,Sociology and Political Science ,Virkni ,Self ,Panama papers ,Mótmælaaðgerðir ,Expectations ,Sociology ,Criminology ,Protests ,Collective action ,Væntingar - Abstract
Social theory implies that a rise in the expectation that many will participate in collective action can make participation in the action widely rational, giving rise to a ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’. I address this classic, yet understudied, proposition by surveying participation in a demonstration that the ‘Panama Papers Leak’ triggered in Iceland in 2016. The demonstration was preceded by a sudden rise of large-turnout expectations, and attracted one-fifth of an urban population, allowing me to obtain event-specific, population-representative survey measures of the focal constructs (N = 821). The findings support hypotheses about the role of large-turnout expectations in collective action. They confirm that protest support (i.e. the value placed in the goal of the collective action) both raises large-turnout expectations and moderates their effects on protest participation. In fact, large-turnout expectations were associated with participation only if individuals supported the protest. Also, the findings imply that large-protest expectations trigger interpersonal relational dynamics that further motivate participation. The study thus supports and yet qualifies the role of the self-fulfilling prophecy in collective action., Pre-print (óritrýnt handrit)
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- 2021
3. Existential Reckoning in Self Psychology and Stolorow's Intersubjectivity Theory: A Discussion of John Riker's Paper and a Consideration of Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis.
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Guss Teicholz, Judy
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INTERSUBJECTIVITY , *PSYCHOANALYSIS , *PSYCHOLOGY , *SELF , *POSSIBILITY - Abstract
In this paper I discuss John Riker's article, "A Critique of Stolorow's Erasure of Self Psychology and his Appropriation of Heigegger's Theory of Authenticity, plus the Possibility of an Intersubjective Self Psychology" a paper in which Riker sets out to evaluate Stolorow's intersubjectivity theory and its contribution to psychoanalysis. I attempt to add something to Riker's consideration of intersubjectivity especially as it relates to our shared mortality, a topic addressed by Stolorow in a lifetime of books and papers. I also comment on some of the similarities and differences between the ideas of Kohut and Stolorow, suggesting that to some extent these differences lie more in the distinctive languages coined by the two authors than in the ideas themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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4. Conversations: With Andrew Solomon, Evan Osnos, Tim Marlow, Amale Andraos, Carol Becker, Vivian Yee, Nicholas Baume: by Ai Weiwei, New York, Columbia University Press, 2021, 152 pp., $60.00/£48.00 (cloth), $19.95/£14.99 (paper).
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Hawley, William M.
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SELF , *CONSCIENCE , *PUBLIC officers , *POLITICAL philosophy - Abstract
Ai Weiwei is an installation artist who enjoyed great acclaim in the West after having absented himself from China, his homeland. These latter qualities mark both the excellence and the limitations of Ai Weiwei as an artist whose genial personality plays a role in his popularity as significant as the artworks themselves. To be sure, Ai Weiwei possesses the habits and noetic resources of an artist deserving of his celebrity. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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5. Relational Self Psychology: Could There Be Any Other Kind? A Discussion of Magid, Fosshage & Shane's Paper, The Emerging Paradigm of Relational Self Psychology: A Historical Perspective.
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Guss Teicholz, Judy
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SELF , *PSYCHOLOGICAL literature , *PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
In this paper I discuss Magid, Fosshage and Shane's impressive overview of the contributions to Relational Self Psychology in the psychoanalytic literature, contributions they see as having emerged for the most part after Kohut's death and therefore as having been carried out almost entirely by Kohut's followers. But while the authors see Kohut's work as having hewed closely to a one-person psychology, I use my discussion to highlight what I see as the two-person themes in Kohut's own writings, suggesting that he may have been more relational in his thinking than initially meets the eye. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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6. The experience of hurt in the deepest part of self; a phenomenological study in young people with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI)
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AghaMohammadi, Soudeh, Mazaheri, Mohammad Ali, Fata, Ladan, Mootabi, Fereshteh, and Moghadasiyan, Basir
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- 2024
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7. The use of self: the conscious or unconscious (sharing or) leaking of identity by LGBQ cisgender women youth workers in the North of England
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Hatton, Jean
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- 2023
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8. Psychoanalytic encounter: Conflict and change – Papers from the XXIst IFPS Forum, February 2020, Lisbon.
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Conci, Marco and Maniadakis, Grigoris
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OBJECT relations , *SELF , *FORUMS - Published
- 2022
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9. Print Imprint: The Connection Between the Physical Newspaper and the Self.
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Mathews, Nick
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NEWSPAPERS ,BUSINESS losses ,SELF ,NOSTALGIA - Abstract
This research puts forward the theoretical concept "print imprint," articulating the connection between the printed newspaper and its reader's "Self." This paper contends that the printed newspaper draws out the meaningfulness of ownership, touch and nostalgia, all influential ingredients of the self. This research centers on interviews with 19 former readers of a weekly newspaper that shuttered. The findings illustrate the significance, usefulness and uniqueness of the printed newspaper. In particular, participants expressed a relationship with the printed newspaper, calling it "my paper." Ultimately, this research argues that the loss of the weekly newspaper prompted a loss or lessening of self of the abandoned readers. Finally, this article argues this "print imprint" extends beyond printed newspapers and should be considered for all print products, including magazines and books, pointing to future research possibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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10. Self, Psyche, and Technology. A Brave New World.
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Prince, Robert
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SELF ,ARTIFICIAL intelligence ,TELEPSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
This article discusses the impact of technology on the human mind and self. It explores various technological advancements such as artificial intelligence, medical technologies, remote psychotherapy, and the internet, and their effects on psychology and psychoanalysis. The papers in this collection raise questions about how these advancements shape our work and our lives, and whether they enhance or undermine human experience. The article also examines the changing conception of self in the digital age and the potential dangers and benefits of technology. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2024
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11. Reflections on Childhood in an Era of Unrest (1983): Occasional Paper No. 1.
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Carini, Patricia F.
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HORSE racetracks ,SCHOOL gardens ,SELF - Abstract
Harry and Oscar both laugh and stand surveying their domain, Harry: This is sure some estate. Oscar began, We've got everything we need inside our wall, everything ... Harry: Yeah, we've got a race track and five Rolls, five Lamborghinis, five Jaguars, five Aston-Martins, and five ... all those other kinds, you know, the fastest and best ones. Harry glances over at Ian and says in a soft, pleasant tone: Hey, Ian, we can build you inside our wall, if you want. It is not clear who the third is.) Oscar: Yeah, the richest in the world, At this point, Ian, who had been working separately on his track came and stepped over the estate wall. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
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12. Returning the Self to Nature: Undoing Our Collective Narcissism and Healing Our Planet: Jeanine, Canty. Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 2022 (192 pp. $18.95, paper, ISBN 978-1611809749).
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Appt, Jason
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HEALING ,NARCISSISM ,SELF ,PEOPLE with mental illness ,NARCISSISTIC personality disorder - Abstract
Jeanine Canty's book, "Returning the Self to Nature: Undoing Our Collective Narcissism and Healing Our Planet," explores the concept of narcissism through an ecopsychology lens. Canty draws from various disciplines, including depth psychology, indigenous earth-based traditions, Buddhism, and social and environmental justice movements, to argue that dominant culture exhibits narcissistic traits that contribute to ecological, social, and psychological crises. She critiques the individualistic approach to narcissism and instead views it as a societal problem, emphasizing the need for compassionate understanding and collective healing. Canty also examines the intersectionality of race, class, gender, and ecology in relation to narcissism. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2024
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13. Retraction.
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SELF , *PAPER mills , *SOCIAL problems , *SCHOLARLY periodicals , *COMMUNITIES - Published
- 2023
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14. Self in the World: Connecting Life's Extremes: by Keith Hart, 314 pp., bibliogr., Oxford, Berghahn, 2022, £23.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-80073-422-7.
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Hornborg, Alf
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SELF - Abstract
Self in the World: Connecting Life's Extremes by Keith Hart is an autobiography that chronicles the life and career of the author, from his upbringing in Manchester to his work in various prestigious universities and development agencies around the world. The book explores themes of freedom of movement, global inequalities, and the intersection of economic anthropology and development studies. Hart's personal journey is filled with paradoxes and ambivalences, and he candidly discusses his struggles with mental illness. The autobiography also includes reflections on thinkers who have influenced Hart and his perspectives on topics such as religion and money. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2024
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15. September 11th Revisited: "Break on Through to the Other Side!!".
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Kaufmann, Peter
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SELF ,ARGUMENT - Abstract
In his discussion of Gentile's and Togashi's Plenary papers, the author explains how they are initially destabilizing, but ultimately reorienting and profoundly hopeful for us in these threatening, uncertain times. He reviews the arguments that the papers present, explores how they are challenging to him as a representative of a 1960's liberal, Self Psychological perspective and illustrates how they can be applied to clinical work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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16. On hyperelastic solid with thin rigid inclusion and crack subjected to global injectivity condition.
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Furtsev, A. I., Rudoy, E. M., and Sazhenkov, S. A.
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ELASTICITY ,EQUILIBRIUM ,SELF ,SOLIDS - Abstract
The paper investigates a problem concerning the equilibrium of a solid body containing a thin rigid inclusion and a crack. It is assumed that the body is hyperelastic, therefore, it is described within the framework of finite strain theory. One of the peculiarities of this problem is a global injectivity constraint, which prevents the body, the crack faces and the inclusion from both mutual and self penetration. First, the paper deals with the differential formulation of the problem. Next, we consider energy minimization, showing that the latter provides the weak formulation of the former. Finally, the existence of the weak solution is demonstrated through the use of the variational technique. This article is part of the theme issue 'Non-smooth variational problems with applications in mechanics'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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17. LHFFNet: A hybrid feature fusion method for lane detection.
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Kao, Youchen, Che, Shengbing, Zhou, Sha, Guo, Shenyi, Zhang, Xu, and Wang, Wanqin
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INTELLIGENT transportation systems ,SELF ,ANGLES ,CLASSIFICATION - Abstract
Lane line images have the essential attribute of large-scale variation and complex scene information, and the similarity between adjacent lane lines is high, which can easily cause classification errors. And remote lane lines are difficult to recognize due to visual angle changes in width. To address this issue, this paper proposes an effective lane detection framework, which is a hybrid feature fusion network that enhances multiple spatial features and distinguishes key features throughout the entire lane line segment. It enhances and fuses lane line features at multiscale to enhance the feature representation of lane line images, especially at the far end. Firstly, in order to enhance the correlation of multiscale lane features, a multi-head self attention is used to construct a multi-space attention enhancement module for feature enhancement in multispace. Secondly, a spatial separable convolutional branch is designed for the jumping layer structure connecting multiscale lane line features. While retaining feature information of different scales, important lane areas in multiscale feature information are emphasized through the allocation of spatial attention weights. Finally, considering that lane lines are elongated areas in the image, and the background information in the image is much more abundant than lane line information, the flexibility of traditional pooling operations in capturing widely existing anisotropic contexts in actual environments is limited. Therefore, before embedding feature output branches, strip pooling is introduced to refine the representation of lane line information and optimize model performance. The experimental results show that the accuracy on the TuSimple dataset reaches 96.84%, and the F1 score on the CULane dataset reaches 75.9%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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18. Things, Place, Self: From "Four Things" to "Four Friends" in the Studio.
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YUNSHUANG ZHANG
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SELF , *PAINTBRUSHES , *INK , *PAPER ,SONG dynasty, China, 960-1279 - Abstract
Through the dual keywords--wenfang 文房 and "four friends" (siyou 四友)--this essay examines the inextricable interrelationship among material things, a place, and the self that was initiated during the Song dynasty (960-1279). Song literati displayed unprecedented interest in scholarly things, particularly four specific things in the studio--the writing brush, inkstone, paper, and ink. Through literary representations, this article investigates the changing nature of the literati's relation to these "four things" in the studio. Rather than framing their bond as the ruler and ministers or the owner and his possessions, from the early Northern Song to the Southern Song, writers transformed their relationship to these four things gradually to that between friends and peers, or from pure ownership to an imaginary friendship, and in turn, these four things supported the construction of both the personal studio and the collective identity of the new elites in the Song. This transformation from "four things" or "four treasures" to "four friends" represented a distinctive model of the observation and conception of material things that Song scholars developed, which provided intriguing insights into the relationship between humans and things in premodern China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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19. Awakening the unconscious imagination and igniting ethical aspirations: the case of Hiraya Foresight via the engaged foresight approach.
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Cruz, Shermon Ortega and Kahn-Parreño, Nicole Anne
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LITERATURE reviews ,DECOLONIZATION ,FUTURES studies ,IMAGINATION ,SELF - Abstract
Purpose: This paper aims to introduce, unpack, explore, make sense and share Hiraya Foresight via the Engaged Foresight approach as a futures concept, framework and methodology to reconceptualize foresight and reframe anticipatory processes to enable the self and communities to reimagine visions of the future. This indigenous foresight process offers to strip the husk and break the shell of conscious, colonial anticipation and reveal and liberate unconscious imagination that enables ethical aspirations to emerge. Design/methodology/approach: This paper introduces and examines the context, purpose and process of the four waves of the Hiraya Foresight Framework via the Engaged Foresight approach. These were constructed through the use of the Engaged Foresight approach, through workshops, a literature review and an action–learning approach. The first wave, lawak, looks into the breadth of foresight. The second wave, lalim, looks into the depth of foresight. Tayog, the third wave, looks into the peak of foresight. Finally, the fourth wave of foresight kababaang-loob contemplates the nature, values and wisdom of foresight. Findings: This paper shares the processes, experiences and impacts through five case studies where the Hiraya Foresight Framework via the Engaged Foresight approach was applied. This paper shares the impacts of Hiraya Foresight in democratizing and indigenizing futures literacy. Originality/value: This paper describes and offers Hiraya Foresight via the Engaged Foresight approach as an indigenous approach to decolonize futures studies and foresight practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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20. Elements of Historical Personal Identity Construction of Finnish-Speaking Students.
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Taivalantti, Tanja, Norppa, Johanna, and Löfström, Jan
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YOUNG adults ,SELF ,IDENTITY (Psychology) ,HISTORY education ,HISTORY of education - Abstract
In this paper, the constructions of historical personal identity of Finnish-speaking students are analysed. The students participated in a larger study of historical narratives and identities, carried out in 2020 in two schools in Finland and in one European School outside Finland. In the mixed-method study, sixty-one students were interviewed and given writing and drawing assignments on historical identity. In this paper, the students' visual representations of their personal historical identity and its relationship with wider official history are analysed. The aim is to increase understanding of how 14–16-year-old students visualise and articulate their historical personal identity constructions and the historical elements they use in negotiating this identity. The findings suggest that the students integrate personal and historical social narratives in diverse ways but that the majority of them find it challenging to connect their personal family history with the wider official history. Only twelve students made the connection. In addition to presenting the results for the whole group of students, the visual representations of two selected students are discussed in more detail so as to highlight the difference in the approaches to historical personal identity construction among the students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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21. Editorial for the Special Issue "Information Technologies in Education, Research, and Innovation".
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Cheng, Eric C. K. and Wang, Tianchong
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ELECTRONIC textbooks ,SELF ,EDUCATION conferences ,STUDENT engagement ,TEACHING methods ,TEACHER attitudes - Abstract
This editorial discusses the integration of education and technology in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It presents a collection of research papers that explore various aspects of this intersection, including personalized learning approaches, the impact of technology integration on learning, the skills needed for success in the digital age, and challenges associated with technology integration in education. The papers highlight the importance of adapting educational approaches to meet the diverse needs of students in a technology-enabled learning environment. The editorial emphasizes the need for collaboration among educators, researchers, technologists, and policymakers to continue advancing in this field. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2024
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22. Wittgenstein on the Self and Autonomy of Individual
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Lalruatfela, Lalruatfela
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- 2024
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23. 'Here quietude is linked with stillness': Winnicott's Silent Core of the Self and Aesthetic Experience.
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Pihlaja, Eeva
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AESTHETIC experience ,SELF - Abstract
In his paper 'Communicating and not communicating leading to a study of certain opposites' (1963), Donald Winnicott suggests that there is a silent, non‐communicating area of experience at the core of the self. Poetic expression takes a prominent role in the text. In this article, I concentrate on the aesthetic dimension of Winnicott's text and use it to explore the role of aesthetic experience in the development of self‐experience. I suggest that the paper's aesthetic dimension—form, quality and structure—expresses essential characteristics of the core of the self and the mature self's communication with it. I furthermore suggest that Winnicott, by use of poetic expression, offers the idea that the core, defined here as pre‐reflective experience, can be approached through aesthetic means. Building on George Hagman and Giuseppe Civitarese, I argue that aesthetic experience creates a bridge between pre‐reflective and reflective aspects of self‐experience and thus contributes to the integration of self. I suggest that forming a connection with the core can be seen as an aesthetic act where the intention is not to transform pre‐reflective experience into reflective. Since aesthetic experience includes reflection, the effort to represent the core of the self remains paradoxical. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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24. Use of Self as an Anti-Oppressive Tool for Pedagogy.
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Quiros, Laura and Bagnini, Karen
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SELF ,COVID-19 pandemic ,SOCIAL workers ,SOCIAL services ,SOCIAL movements - Abstract
The Zeitgeist of our time calls on social workers and the social work profession to reconsider the ways in which we practice, teach, and learn. The COVID-19 pandemic and the 2021 reawakening of the racial and social justice movements profoundly influence how social workers approach the directive from our accrediting body (CSWE) calling on us to intentionally integrate an anti-racist framework in our implicit and explicit curriculum. This paper re-introduces "use of self" as an anti-oppressive pedagogical tool that can build and hold brave spaces of transformation. Orienting ourselves to the use of self as a kind of pedagogy is one way to reengage with our social justice mission. Although we believe that pedagogy and practice are intricately connected, for the purposes of this paper, we focus on pedagogy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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25. Grammar, cohesion and the co-ordination of the "self" in a current psychotherapeutic technique.
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Butt, David G., Moore, Alison R., Henderson-Brooks, Caroline, and Khoo, Kristin
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FUNCTIONAL linguistics ,COHESION ,FRONTAL lobe ,SELF ,PSYCHOTHERAPY ,SHARING - Abstract
This paper aims to show how concepts and analytical methods of systemic functional linguistics can work congruently with other human practices to improve outcomes for those undergoing the suffering around loss of meaning and the absence of purposeful, self-directed experience. Based on a two-decade collaboration between linguists and psychotherapists in Sydney, Australia, and using the tools of text linguistics as developed by Michael A. K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan in systemic functional theory, the paper presents an indicative selection of intense exchanges between traumatized persons and therapists (centrally the experience of 'Ruth'). The level by level linguistic descriptions of these exchanges offer opportunities for understanding how progress in the clinical interaction might be achieved. The descriptions can also be evaluated against the theoretical claims of psychotherapy in psychiatry – in particular, the emphasis of the Conversational Model of Psychotherapy developed in England and Australia by Robert Hobson and Russell Meares, whose characterization of disorders involves an emphasis on 'co-ordination' and 'cohesion' within frontal lobe activity of traumatized patients. In this way the paper also explores conceptual parallels and intellectual antecedents shared between the Conversational Model and Systemic Functional Linguistics, contributing to the broader intellectual history of the human sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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26. Hide and seek: Writing fiction as a way of finding hidden selves.
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Kottler, Amanda
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FICTION writing ,CREATIVE writing ,WRITING processes ,SELF - Abstract
This paper is interested in the hidden selves that hover silently in the spaces that all human relationships create. It asks how these hidden self-states can find the light of day and suggests that one way is through fictional creative writing. The author shares a piece of fictional writing in which an elusive character—Isobel—appears. This ethereal and fictional manifestation occurs in the context of excruciatingly painful relational experiences in which the narrator describes repetitive and painful struggles for transformation. Speculative attempts to understand the meaning of the fictional material reveal an emerging forward edge and a fledgling sense of agency. But more. It elaborates how the creative writing process offers a different kind of lens through which to locate, elaborate, see, experience and be empathic with our own and, by extension, with our patients' hidden self-states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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27. First-Person Perspective in Experience: Perspectival De Se Representation as an Explanation of the Delimitation Problem.
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Sebastián, Miguel Ángel
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PROBLEM solving ,SELF-consciousness (Awareness) ,PHENOMENOLOGY ,CONSCIOUSNESS ,AWARENESS ,SELF ,EXPLANATION - Abstract
In developing a theory of consciousness, one of the main problems has to do with determining what distinguishes conscious states from non-conscious ones—the delimitation problem. This paper explores the possibility of solving this problem in terms of self-awareness. That self-awareness is essential to understanding the nature of our conscious experience is perhaps the most widely discussed hypothesis in the study of consciousness throughout the history of philosophy. Its plausibility hinges on how the notion of self-awareness is unpacked. The idea that consciousness involves self-awareness has been understood in two different ways: either as awareness of oneself—the subject of experience—or as awareness of the conscious episode itself. In this paper I argue (i) that every experience concerns the subject in a very specific way, involving what I will call 'perspectival de se representation', and (ii) that there is no need to appeal to the experience itself in order to characterize the awareness within that experience. The view I articulate explains the subjective nature of experience without over-intellectualizing it, accommodates the phenomenology of experience, and dispels any doubt about the need to find the self in introspection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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28. Deciphering the Forest: A Journey from an Intellectual Concern to a Lived Experience.
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Naiya, Sohini and Singh, Smriti
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GRAPHIC novels ,SELF ,PSYCHOANALYSTS ,MYTHOLOGY ,GEOGRAPHERS ,PHILOSOPHERS - Abstract
The graphic novel Aranyaka: Book of the Forest (2019) by mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik and illustrator and author Amruta Patil is related to the 3000-year-old Vedic literature and the central significance of forests in Vedic mythology. The central theme revolves around natural elements and the world around us. It shows human transactions in the forests and how life evolves amidst nature. This study discusses how blurry the lines between self and others are and whether we truly "see" others and, in turn, ourselves. Domestication and civilization distance us from nature. This paper intends to discuss the tactics, manipulation, and consumption of space in everyday life that the protagonist Katyayani, her husband Yajnavalkya, and others employ within the setting of the dense, dark forest. The forest here acts as a psychological forest, where Katyayani's inner self is transformed and which, for Yajnavalkya, serves as a place where he appears in the quest for knowledge. This paper further aims to show how, in Aranyaka: Book of the Forest, spatial changes take place in the forest using the concepts of human geographer Yu Fu Tuan, philosopher and psychoanalyst Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari, French psychoanalyst and philosopher. The paper also looks at what role the forest plays in the self-awakening of the female protagonist, Katyayani. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
29. 'They should just show their real self, no one is perfect': using collage to explore 10- and 11-year-old's identity portrayal to help reframe e-safety.
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Pescott, Claire
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SOCIAL media ,AUTHENTICITY (Philosophy) ,INTERNET safety ,SEMANTICS ,SEMI-structured interviews - Abstract
Social media facilitates a digital presentation of self and a curated identity that may differ from real-life portrayals. Being exposed to others 'highlight reel' may influence the way we perceive ourselves. Using collage with an unstructured interview, children's perceptions of how they portray their identity in digital spaces were explored. This paper focuses on an in-depth exploration of three of these collages and demonstrates that identity portrayal may be more complex than an online/offline binary. Findings demonstrate that children need support from practitioners to develop emotional skills to deal with the complexity of their social media use beyond traditional e-safety lessons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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30. Culture as the bad object.
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Kerr, Nini
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CULTURE ,INTROSPECTION ,SELF ,AUTOETHNOGRAPHY ,RACISM - Abstract
This paper creatively extends Fairbairn's theory to investigate the impact of the UK's hostile environment policy on marginalised communities at the intersection of culture, politics and society. The hostile environment is conceptualised as a disruptive 'bad object' in the cultural dimension in alignment with Fairbairn's theory. Its influence is explored in terms of its unconscious reproduction within the psyche. By juxtaposing context, theory and personal introspection, this paper offers a Fairbairnian exploration of how sociality and sociopolitical contexts interplay with the intricate processes of the human psyche. It provides reflective commentary on how external racial dynamics are internalised within the endopsychic structure, shaping one's interactions with others, and, more significantly, how one relates to aspects of the self. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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31. The traumatic narratives of sexuality in Taiwanese writer Shao-Lin Chu's trilogy.
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Tsai, Hsiu-Chih
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WOMEN'S sexual behavior ,TAIWANESE people ,MEN'S sexual behavior ,SELF ,WOMEN novelists ,MENTAL depression - Abstract
This paper explores the narratives of the Taiwanese woman novelist Shao-Lin Chu's trilogy to see how the problem of female sexuality and resistance to parental wedlock tragedy becomes a traumatic experience. The traumatic symptoms in the narratives are taken as Peircean signs for tracing the negative influences of traumatic experiences on the formation of personal identity and the associated depressive disorder. The scenes portrayed in Chu's traumatic narratives of female and male sexuality are implications and representations of how sexuality is conceptualized and confined by the traumatic events while backgrounded with regulations and restrictions of a traditional society. The stories of Chu's female narrators reveal the persistent and resisting feminine power. This paper adopts the concept of feminist narrative to analyze the traumatic and sexual events in Chu's trilogy. The decoding and re-encoding of resistance and sexuality in the traumatic narratives prove that the narratological textual analysis and semiotic reading strategy together offer a solid approach to the discovery of the persistent traumatic impacts of the secret veiled in the narratives and reveal the probable strength of compassion that has its roots derived from deplorable trauma but later transforms itself to stimulate a positive reconstruction of the traumatic survivors' identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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32. Between Meanings and Senses-Making Spaces: Agency and Ownership Emergence Formalization from Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Position, for an AI-Friendly Model.
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El Maouch, Mohamad and Jin, Zheng
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EMPLOYABILITY ,AGENT (Philosophy) ,ARTIFICIAL intelligence - Abstract
Sense of agency and sense of ownership are considered crucial in autonomous systems. However, drawbacks still exist regarding how to represent their causal origin and internal structure, either in formalized psychological models or in artificial systems. This paper considers that these drawbacks are based on the ontological and epistemological duality in mainstream psychology and AI. By shedding light on the cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) and dialectical logic, and by building on and extending related work, this paper attempts to investigate how the noted duality affects investigating the self and "I". And by differentiating between the space of meanings and the sense-making space, the paper introduces CHAT's position of the causal emergence of agency and ownership by stressing the twofold transition theory being central to CHAT. Furthermore, a qualitative formalized model is introduced to represent the emergence of agency and ownership through the emergence of the contradictions-based meaning with potential employment in AI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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33. Choosing between Cyrillic and Latin for linguistic citizenship in contemporary Serbia.
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Albury-Garcés, Nathan John
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HABIT ,PERSONAL names ,SELF ,COSMOPOLITANISM ,CITIZENSHIP ,SERBS ,WAR crimes ,METROPOLITAN areas ,ETHNONATIONALISM - Abstract
Both the Cyrillic and Latin scripts are routinely used for writing in Serbian. In existing ideological discourses, using Cyrillic is associated by some with Serbian ethnic authenticity and loyalty to nationhood, but by others with conservatism, Russian-leaning politics and dangerous ethnonationalism. For some, using Latin is associated with cosmopolitanism and a western-leaning internationalisation, but for others with an assault on Serbian heritage, values and tradition. In this context, with which script do Serbians today most closely affiliate and does established ideological discourse actually inform script choices? By seeing this affiliation as linguistic citizenship, the paper analyses survey data and metalinguistic explanations about which script Serbians choose to represent their own names as the most personal of identities. The data show that while some simply write their name in either script depending on habit, younger Serbians, and Serbians outside metropolitan areas, seemingly bias Cyrillic for ethnonationalist reasons as discourse predicts. However, especially revealing is that linguistic citizenship among older Serbians is sooner mediated by lingering notions of Yugoslavia and Serbo-Croatian as country and language that no longer exist but once indexed ideals of equality and harmony in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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34. Personal Identity and Uncertainty in the Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.
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Lu, Zhonghao
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QUANTUM mechanics ,SELF ,MATERIALISM ,PROBLEM solving ,PERSONALITY (Theory of knowledge) - Abstract
The deterministic nature of EQM (the Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics) seems to be inconsistent with the use of probability in EQM, giving rise to what is known as the "incoherence problem". In this paper, I explore approaches to solve the incoherence problem of EQM via pre-measurement uncertainty. Previous discussions on the validity of pre-measurement uncertainty have leaned heavily on intricate aspects of the theory of semantics and reference, the embrace of either four-dimensionalism or three-dimensionalism of personhood, or the ontology of EQM. In this paper, I argue that, regardless of the adoption of three-dimensionalism or four-dimensionalism of personhood, the overlapping view or the divergence view of the ontology of EQM, the pre-measurement uncertainty approach to the incoherence problem of EQM can only achive success while contradicting fundamental principles of physicalism. I also use the divergence view of EQM as an example to illustrate my analyses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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35. Bring Your Non-self to Work? The Interaction Between Self-decentralization and Moral Reasoning
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Mai Chi Vu and Nicholas Burton
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Original Paper ,Economics and Econometrics ,Operationalization ,Self ,Buddhism ,Emptiness ,Identity (social science) ,Moral reasoning ,General Business, Management and Accounting ,Epistemology ,Non-self ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Spirituality ,N100 ,Business and International Management ,Business ethics ,Psychology ,Law - Abstract
Spirituality continues to exert a strong influence in people’s lives both in work and beyond. However, given that spirituality is often non-formalized and personal, we continue to know little about how moral reasoning is strategized. In this paper, we examine how Buddhist leader-practitioners interpret and operationalize a process of self-decentralization based upon Buddhist emptiness theory as a form of moral reasoning. We find that Buddhist leader-practitioners share a common understanding of a self-decentralized identity and operationalize self-decentralization through two practices in Buddhist philosophy—skillful means and the middle way—to foreground social outcomes. However, we also find that practitioners face tensions and challenges in moral reasoning relates to agency—the ‘re-centering’ of the self as an enlightened self and the use of karmic reasoning to justify (un)ethical behavior—and contextual constraints that lead to feelings of vulnerability and exclusion. We present a model that elaborates these processes and invite further research that examines novel approaches and dynamic interpretations of the self in moral reasoning.
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- 2021
36. Paper Girls.
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GIRLS ,SELF ,SCIENCE fiction - Abstract
If that wasn't enough of a spin-out, there's also a secret war being waged between time travellers - and the Paper Girls (so named because they deliver newspapers in 1988) are now caught in the middle of it. That's the premise of this sci-fi series in which adult Erin Tieng (Al Wong) finds her younger counterpart (Riley Lai Nelet) in her kitchen, along with three of teenage Erin's friends. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
37. Beyond the extended and distributed 'self': from subliminal extended selves to nonlocality and neurocapitalism.
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Tadajewski, Mark
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PARAPSYCHOLOGY ,CONSUMERISM ,BRAIN-computer interfaces ,MULTIPLE personality ,SELF - Abstract
Russ's (Belk, 1988) extension of William James' reflections on the self has been a significant accelerant of interpretive and Consumer Culture Theoretic research. In this paper, I will outline a different way we can engage with James' oeuvre; specifically via psychical research and parapsychology. These fields are subsequently linked to recent debates on quantum interconnectedness, nonlocality, brain-computer interfaces and capitalist-materialist telepathy. This endeavour initially responds to Russ's point that 'What we call "self" is really "selves". Besides distributed selves and multiple selves shared between individuals, there are also multiple selves within individuals' (Belk, 2024, p. 571). It builds upon Craig's respective accounts by proffering materialist and post-materialist perspectives on human-human dynamics and human-computer technological affordances. As we shall see, William James encourages us to recognise multiple selves, multiple levels of consciousness, and the psychical extension of self. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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38. Reflections on a reimagined future for consumer research.
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Hewer, Paul
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CONSUMER research ,CONSUMERS ,ACTIVITY-based costing - Abstract
This paper is born of the joy and pain of institutional life. It responds to recent work by Craig Thompson and is a response to an invitation to participate from the Editor of the JMM (Mark Tadajewski). It seeks to take seriously the role of consumer research and consumption within society. It seeks to tell 'better stories' about the past, present and what it sees as a reimagined future for consumer research. To do so, it revisits some of the canonical works of consumer research, such exemplary work it suggests are worthy of revisiting and critiquing if we are to chart a rejuvenated form of consumer research that takes seriously our contemporary predicament and is more critical and incisive in its intent. With renewed purpose it takes on board the insights around Bauman's notion of 'liquid times', offers a range of opportunities, possibilities and dangers around the conflicted consumer self and puts forward an ABC of critical consumer research, where notions of affect, breakdown, contradiction are taken seriously for their theoretical and practical insights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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39. Self-evaluation and depression in adolescents with a chronic illness: A systematic review.
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Hards, Emily, Orchard, Faith, Khalid, Sundus, D'souza, Clea, Cohen, Flora, Gowie, Evangeline, and Loades, Maria
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PSYCHOLOGY information storage & retrieval systems ,MEDICAL databases ,MEDICAL information storage & retrieval systems ,CHRONIC diseases ,SELF-evaluation ,SYSTEMATIC reviews ,MENTAL depression ,MEDLINE - Abstract
Objective: To conduct a systematic review to establish what is known about the relationship between depression and self-evaluation in adolescents with a chronic illness. Methods: A systematic search was conducted using MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Web of Science, The Cochrane Library, and hand-searching. We sought to identify primary research that examined both the cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between depression and self-evaluation in adolescents with chronic illness. The search resulted in 8941 retrieved articles that were screened against an inclusion criteria. A total of 4 papers were included in the review. The MMAT used to assess study methodological quality. Results: A narrative synthesis was conducted, and a summary figure was included. These 4 studies included 236 adolescents aged 9–18 years with depression and either Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), chronic pain, headaches, or Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). The limited existing evidence indicated that that depression was associated with negative self-evaluation in adolescents in some but not all chronic illnesses investigated to date. We also found some evidence that psychological intervention can help to improve self-evaluation, specifically in adolescents with T1D. Conclusions: More robust studies of the association between self-evaluation and depression in adolescents with a chronic illness is needed, with attention to the nuances of differences between chronic illnesses. The existing evidence indicates that there may be a stronger association in some chronic illnesses. Pilot data suggest that specific psychological therapies may improve self-evaluation, although much more extensive evaluation is needed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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40. Maternal and Paternal Hauntings in the Evolution of the Self: Commentary on "Where is my Mother? Childhood Trauma and the Configuration of the Self".
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Stevens, Garth
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ADVERSE childhood experiences ,SELF ,MOTHERS ,WOUND & injury classification - Abstract
In this commentary, I engage with selected ideas from Mendes' paper, examining childhood trauma and the (dis) configuration of the Self. First, I focus on what the possibilities of a more triadically-inflected analysis of the relationship between the patient, her mother, and father may offer us in understanding the recalcitrant effects of trauma inside a culturally gendered triad. Second, I reflect on the foregrounded traumatogenic events surrounding the patient's maternal loss, and highlight the role of her father as a potential driver of iatrogenic traumatic outcomes that are further consolidated within the Self. Third, I reflect obliquely on issues of training, focusing on the centrality of language in conveying clinical material, as a critical basis for generating compelling and credible sources of evidence in psychoanalytic writing. Finally, I conclude with reflections on the possibilities and limitations of theoretical diversity and pluralism, that have characterized much of the contemporary Relational Paradigm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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41. Dynamics of Freedom: Negotiating Constraints
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Hejlesen, Jonas Tellefsen
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- 2024
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42. A Journey in Search of “I”: The Self in Shabistarī’s Rose Garden of Mystery (Gulshan-i Rāz).
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RAHBARI GHAZANI, Rasoul and UYSAL, Saliha
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SELF ,GODS ,METAPHYSICS - Abstract
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- 2023
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43. Note from the Editor.
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DiMoia, John P.
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IDENTITY (Psychology) ,SELF ,ASIANS ,DIASPORA ,KOREAN language - Abstract
The Seoul Journal of Korean Studies is preparing to publish another issue, which will include a special edition organized by Professor Jackie J. Kim-Wachutka on the broad themes of Zainichi culture. The contributors to this special issue come from fourteen different countries, highlighting the international range of scholarship in Korean Studies. The regular issue of the journal will feature three papers that explore the place of Korean content across different languages and contexts. Additionally, the issue includes book reviews and highlights the emerging subfields within Korean Studies, such as diaspora, migration, music, and religion. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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44. Approaching the self: alternative perspectives of selfwork in education.
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Allan, Julie and Harwood, Valerie
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MENTAL health of youth ,HIGHER education ,HEGEMONY ,PSYCHIATRY ,PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
In this paper we respond to this special issue's critical focus on mental health in education by considering the medicalised and homogenising approaches to the mental health of young people and the severely negative consequences for young people. Our argument is underpinned by the need to destabilise the hegemony of the current dominant discourses and practices of mental health used in education. The problem with these discourses and practices, informed by particular forms of psychiatry and psychology, is precisely their dominance and their popularised proxy take-up of these. We firstly outline this problem, explore the emergence and saturation of a 'damaged self' in education and consider the impact on young people. We offer counter-narratives that involve a reframing of the self in relation to ethics, politics, capability and the arts and can assist in countering the psy-dominance in education. The paper concludes with some reflections on how teachers might work against the damaging effects of the psy-disciplines and instead support young people in finding their counter-narrative selves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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45. Consciousness in Pain: A New Model for Analysing Its Transformation.
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Naor-Hofri, Roni
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CONSCIOUSNESS ,SELF ,PHENOMENOLOGY ,THEORY of knowledge - Abstract
When looking for an account that explains how pain changes consciousness, one finds that most studies in the phenomenology of pain focus either on the outcome of the change, or on how it affects the self, as a conscious object, and the self's experiences in the world of objects. This paper focuses on the mechanism of consciousness, exploring the nature of the change that pain creates in consciousness and how exactly that change occurs. The paper provides a systematic, phenomenological inquiry in three phases: one identifies three essential attributes of consciousness, another identifies three essential attributes of pain, and a third analyses the outcome of the integration between both sets of attributes. The paper demonstrates how the change wrought by pain on the self, as a conscious object, allows the self to breach its boundaries as an object, and experience being a non-object, even if only in part and temporarily. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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46. Toward a queered psychology of the self: Empathy and passibility from the margins to the center.
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Guzzardi, Sam
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PSYCHOLOGY ,SELF ,EMPATHY ,LGBTQ+ studies ,AMERICAN dramatists ,COMMUNITY psychology - Abstract
Beginning with Kohut's classic 1959 paper on the subject, empathy has been conceptualized as a process of finding something in one's self (introspection) that has resonance with one's experience of the other. This paper, inspired by advances in queer studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the Black American theater, identifies the limitations of this understanding. By putting Kohut's ideas about empathy in dialogue with French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard, Black American playwrights Jeremy O. Harris, Michael R. Jackson, and James Ijames, and the author's own clinical experience, a queered empathy is theorized that relies less on self-reference and more on passibility. The theoretical and clinical implications of this shift are explored, and the possibilities for a queered Psychology of the Self that contain a heightened possibility for responsiveness to marginalized experience are suggested. The hope of this paper is that the reader, from a multidisciplinary perspective, will be inspired to imagine a psychoanalysis and Self Psychology for all that has the potential to flourish for generations to come. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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47. Unraveling Trauma and Heterotopic Spaces in Michael Ondaatje's "Anil's Ghost": A Postcolonial Exploration.
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V. I., KHOMA
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POSTCOLONIALISM ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,CULTURAL studies ,MULTIDIMENSIONAL scaling ,SELF - Abstract
The present paper explores Michael Ondaatje's novel "Anil's Ghost" through the lens of trauma theory, postcolonialism, and the concept of heterotopic spaces. As space studies examine migration, displacement, and exile, which are inherently linked to traumatic experiences, the investigation illuminates the intricate connection between heterotopic spaces and encounters with trauma, providing a valuable understanding of their interdependence. Michael Ondaatje, the acclaimed author of "Anil's Ghost", has drawn upon his own traumatic experiences of displacement and emigration in the novel. Therefore, the purpose of the research paper is to analyze how changes in space shape traumatic experiences. Spaces are integral to one's sense of place and identity, and traumatic events might disrupt this connection, leading to a profound loss of identity or a struggle to reconcile personal identity with changed or disrupted spaces. Studying the connections between trauma and space reveals a better understanding of how environments and spatial contexts impact the occurrence, perception, and recovery from traumatic events. The research contextualizes Foucault's concept of heterotopia within postcolonial distinctions in time and space, emphasizing its relevance in understanding the novel's narrative. It highlights the complexity of trauma and the challenge of reconciling historical narratives within these spaces. Employing a multidimensional methodology integrating cultural studies, trauma theory, and literary analysis, results uncover the complexities of trauma within postcolonial spaces, notably Sri Lanka, showcasing the profound impact of historical conflicts and Western interventions. Ultimately, the research concludes by recognizing the intertwined nature of trauma, history, and identity within physical and metaphorical spaces. It acknowledges the evolution of characters’ identities like Anil Tissera, who navigate their personal traumas and their nation's scars, seeking a path forward while acknowledging the weight of history. In summary, the manuscript contributes to a deeper understanding of how "Anil's Ghost" navigates the complexities of trauma, identity, and history, shedding light on the relationships between individuals, society, and historical narratives in postcolonial contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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48. Understanding of Self: Buddhism and Psychoanalysis
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Whachul Oh
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Original Paper ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Freud ,Psychoanalysis ,Self ,Public health ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Buddhism ,Religious studies ,Illusion ,General Medicine ,Mental health ,Psychotherapy ,Psychological health ,medicine ,Humans ,Kohut ,Psychology ,General Nursing ,media_common - Abstract
The healing of the self—or the psychological health of the self—has been an intensely studied issue in the traditions of both Buddhism and psychoanalysis. It is easy to suppose that the understanding of self in Buddhism cannot coexist with the understanding of self in psychoanalysis because the self in Buddhist tradition is mainly regarded as an illusion and needs to be deconstructed, whereas in psychoanalysis, it should be re-constructed for mental health through analysis. Because of this difference in the understanding of self, one may also suppose that these two respective paths to a balanced mind would inevitably be different.
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- 2021
49. Kierkegaard's Conception of Subjective Self and Its Implications for Spiritual Education.
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Chia-Ling Cheng
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This paper investigates Søren Kierkegaard's concept of the self in his subjective thought, along with its implications for spiritual education. First of all, I argue that spirituality plays an essential role in life education. Apart from the meaning of spirit and spirituality, the development of spiritual education reveals that spiritual thought is unique and sacred. Second, by interpreting Kierkegaard's ideas on the self and subjectivity, this paper points out his vision of spirtuality and the meaning of a human being as a subjective existence. Third, this paper explores Kierkegaard's reflections on subjectivity in relation to the self, others and transcendence. Hence, the aim of this paper is to utilize Kierkegaard's existential thought of selfhood to spiritual education in Taiwan, providing a richer and more comprehensive perspective on spirituality. It concludes by expecting students to become spiritual subjects and lifelong learners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
50. ‘I’ve become so healthy that I can’t live anymore’: exploring ‘health as balance’ discourses and the construction of health and identity among young urban South African adults
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Michelle De Jong, Simóne Plüg, and Anthony Collins
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Balance ,Original Paper ,Self ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Discourse analysis ,Neoliberalism ,Identity (social science) ,Gender studies ,Self-control ,Moderation ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,South Africa ,Empirical research ,Health ,Identity ,Sociology ,Foucauldian discourse analysis ,media_common - Abstract
Social science research on health in South Africa tends to focus on illness and how to address health problems. Qualitative empirical research focussing on lay understandings and experiences of healthiness, or health discourses, in South Africa is fairly limited. This article addresses this gap by critically exploring how young South African adults used discourses of balance to make sense of what it means to be a healthy person and highlights the implications of these discourses for identity. Foucault’s concepts of ‘technologies of the self’ and ‘techniques of discipline’ are discussed as a theoretical grounding for this paper. Data were collected from 20 in-depth semi-structured interviews, and analysed using Foucauldian discourse analysis. This paper will specifically explore a key discourse identified through the analysis: ‘health as balance’ and 2 interrelated sub-discourses which fall within it. Through this discourse, healthiness was constructed as requiring a broad focus on improving all aspects of one’s life (‘health as holistic’) and the avoidance of any behaviours or emotions which could be classified as extreme (‘health as moderation’). Constant, careful management of the self, or ‘calibration’, functions to both perpetuate a cycle of ‘anxiety and control’ and to obscure ways in which health discourses can be harmful or problematic.
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- 2021
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