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Sep 24, 2018 · In order to explain how a self is unified, identification must involve self-expression; the agent must relate herself to desires or attitudes with which she identifies.
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The self is connected to core motives (e.g., coherence, agency, and communion) and is manifested in the form of both personal identities and social identities. Finally, just as the self is a product of proximal and distal social forces, it is also an agent that actively shapes its environment.
- Introduction
- The Social Actor
- The Motivated Agent
- The Autobiographical Author
- Conclusion
In the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, the ancient Greeks inscribed the words: “Know thyself.” For at least 2,500 years, and probably longer, human beings have pondered the meaning of the ancient aphorism. Over the past century, psychological scientists have joined the effort. They have formulated many theories and tested countless hypotheses that spea...
Shakespeare tapped into a deep truth about human nature when he famously wrote, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” He was wrong about the “merely,” however, for there is nothing more important for human adaptation than the manner in which we perform our roles as actors in the everyday theatre of social life. What S...
Whether we are talking literally about the theatrical stage or more figuratively, as I do in this module, about the everyday social environment for human behavior, observers can never fully know what is in the actor’s head, no matter how closely they watch. We can see actors act, but we cannot know for sure what they want or what they value, unless...
Even as the “I” continues to develop a sense of the “Me” as both a social actor and a motivated agent, a third standpoint for selfhood gradually emerges in the adolescent and early-adult years. The third perspective is a response to Erikson’s (1963) challenge of identity. According to Erikson, developing an identity involves more than the explorati...
For human beings, selves begin as social actors, but they eventually become motivated agents and autobiographical authors, too. The I first sees itself as an embodied actor in social space; with development, however, it comes to appreciate itself also as a forward-looking source of self-determined goals and values, and later yet, as a storyteller o...
Aug 7, 2020 · The key to understanding self-identity is identifying the transcendental structures that make a temporally extended, continuous, and unified experiential life possible. Self-identity is rooted in the formal, temporalizing structure of intentional experience that underlies psychological continuity.
- John J. Drummond
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- 2021
Aug 21, 2023 · A question that arises when we try characterizing the problem of identity includes: what do we think we are referring to by a “person” or a “self,” if not a persistent object? As Hume’s work demonstrates, it is possible to seriously problematize the very notion of a persistent self.
- Luke Dunne
Jun 21, 2021 · Research on self and identity has greatly enhanced personality science by directing inquiry more deeply into the person’s conscious mind and more expansively outward into the social...
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The Self, in its quest for consciousness, requires the surrendering of ego inflation – the narcissistic delusion that the ego is the self. Although purposive, the Self can be experienced as violent and destructive if the ego is unable to facilitate its expression.
