Thomas Morawetz, Scotty Enyart

Knowing Self, Changing Self (eBook, ePUB)

The Interplay of Reality, Fantasy, and Friendship

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book uses philosophy, psychology, and autobiography in an innovative exploration of self and self-knowledge. It argues that our sense of who we are is an ever-changing response to the world of interpersonal experience, an essential project that is always subject to revision and change. It explores self-knowledge through linked topics. What characteristics make an individual identifiable and unique, and how are they experienced introspectively? What insight can be gained through the metaphors of acting and roles? How does fantasy plays a crucial part in self-definition and self-exploration? How do trust and fear define our perception of others and what is their contribution to our sense of self? The second half of the book uses the friendship of the authors, a philosopher and a psychologist, to investigate how one's ability to navigate the world, along with one's self-knowledge, changes through mutual care, respect, and complementarity-and through an explicit dialogic focus on self and self-understanding.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498575072
• Artikelnr.: 53310416

Autorenporträt

By Thomas Morawetz and Scotty Enyart

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Knowing Self (by Thomas Morawetz) Introduction: On the Examined
Life Chapter 1: On the Social Bases of Self-Knowledge "Who Am I?" Identity
and Recognition Attitudes Trust and Fear Self-knowledge as Knowledge
Fantasy Selves Chapter 2: On Truth and Falsity, Fantasy and Self-Knowledge
What You See... Aspects and Ingredients of the Self Parameters of
Self-image Discontent and Quiet Desperation Culture and Fantasy Deeper into
Fantasy Chapter 3: On Acting, Roles, and Essences Acting: Two Meanings
"Real" Actors The Audience Deeper into Identification Roles and Selves
Cosplay Chapter 4: On Recognition The Importance of Recognizability
Recognizing Oneself Anonymity Recognition, Power, and Fear Impersonation
and Deception The Technology of Self-creation Part 2: Changing Self (by
Thomas Morawetz and Scotty Enyart) Chapter 5: On Friendship Others and
Alter Egos (TM) Beginning Again (SE) Contrast and Complement (TM) Learning
and Giving (SE) Voices in the Wilderness (TM) Chapter 6: On Professional
Identity Revising the Self (TM) Therapy: Inroads, Strengths, Deficits (SE)
Change: Transparency and Opacity (TM) The Therapist's Role (SE) The Self as
Indirect Object (TM) Chapter 7: On Culture What is Culture? (TM) Origins
(SE) Frames, Contexts, and Cultures (TM) The Deliberate Cultural Pursuit of
Self-knowledge (SE) Culture and Personal Trajectories (TM) Chapter 8: On
Feeling Judging and Feeling (TM) Ways of Knowing and Feeling (SE) The Self
and Humanism (TM)