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  1. Essay on Psychological Perspective of the Self

    Essay on Psychological Perspective of the Self. Understanding the self is never easy. Some people understand themselves right away, and others take a lot of years for them to know and understand who they really are. We will experience a lot of things in life for us to discover our strengths and weaknesses.

  2. Self, From a Psychological Perspective

    Description. The concept "self" has shifting meanings as a result of it originating in religious ideas about the soul, being heavily philosophized during the Renaissance and most recently being the topic of scientific research. The dominant contemporary definition is that self is the thoughts and images people have about themselves.

  3. "I" and "Me": The Self in the Context of Consciousness

    James (1890) distinguished two understandings of the self, the self as "Me" and the self as "I". This distinction has recently regained popularity in cognitive science, especially in the context of experimental studies on the underpinnings of the phenomenal self. The goal of this paper is to take a step back from cognitive science and ...

  4. Psychological View of the Self

    As a result, for Socrates, the soul or self is the responsible agent in comprehending and behaving correctly or incorrectly ("Socrates' concept of the self," 2022). The self is founded on understanding and ignorance, goodness, and badness, and as individuals seek self-knowledge, they finally realize their genuine selves.

  5. Psychology of the Self

    The self. In The handbook of social psychology. 4th ed. Edited by D. T. Gilbert, S. T. Fiske, and G. Lindzey, 680-740. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. Comprehensive and extensive, this chapter offers a detailed and exceptionally well-organized overview of the extant literature on psychology of self.

  6. Self and Identity

    For the man whom many regard as the father of modern psychology, William James, the self was a source of continuity that gave individuals a sense of "connectedness" and "unbrokenness" ( 1890, p. 335). James distinguished between two components of the self: the "I" and the "me" ( 1910 ). The "I" is the self as agent, thinker ...

  7. The self is not singular but a fluid network of identities

    Just as a body is a highly complex, organised network of organismic and molecular systems, the self is a highly organised network. Traits of the self can organise into clusters or hubs, such as a body cluster, a family cluster, a social cluster. There might be other clusters, but keeping it to a few is sufficient to illustrate the idea.

  8. The self in social psychology: Towards new perspectives.

    This essay will start by reviewing definitions of the self as well as the main problems psychologists are confronted with when theorizing the self I will argue, in supporting the vision of the self as being a social structure, that both tendencies to "individualize" and "discursify" fail to acknowledge the intersubjective nature of the self and ...

  9. The self-concept: Theory and research.

    There are two aims of this chapter. First, it provides a starting point for understanding the major theories that have been influential in defining the self-concept. It outlines early western philosophical positions, as well as more recent psychodynamic, cognitive, social, and narrative theories. Second, it offers an overview of the application of the self-concept in psychological research ...

  10. Essay On Psychological Perspective of The Self

    Essay on Psychological Perspective of the Self - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. This essay discusses Carl Rogers' theory of the real self and ideal self. The real self consists of one's self-awareness and abilities, while the ideal self is how one wants to see themselves. The author is still learning about their real self through experiences but ...

  11. 4.1 The Cognitive Self: The Self-Concept

    The self-concept is a schema that contains knowledge about us. It is primarily made up of physical characteristics, group memberships, and traits. Because the self-concept is so complex, it has extraordinary influence on our thoughts, feelings, and behavior, and we can remember information that is related to it well.

  12. Images of Self in Psychological Thought

    The concept of self is a multi-faceted one that is used by different theorists in different ways. In this paper, we present an overview of the dominant themes and images that structure conceptions of self as used by psychologists, sociologists, philosophers and other scholars. In order for concepts like self and identity to be meaningful, it is necessary that we compare and clarify their ...

  13. PDF Who Am I? The Self/Subject According to Psychoanalytic Theory

    In America it was Kohut who began talking of the self as a `psychic structure' (1971: xv), `a content of the mental apparatus' (p. xv) with a `psychic location' (p. xv). In England Winnicott introduced the idea of a `true self' linking it with the id. Guntrip depicts the evolution of psychoanalytic theory as consisting of four stages be-fore it ...

  14. Psychological perspectives on self and identity.

    Abstract. This book offers a broad, new rendering of developments in a growing area of social psychology—the scientific study of self and identity. In each chapter, scholars describe their work on such topics as self-dynamics, self-structure, impression management, intimate relationships, and the interplay between self-motives and consistency ...

  15. "I" and "Me": The Self in the Context of Consciousness

    James (1890) distinguished two understandings of the self, the self as "Me" and the self as "I". This distinction has recently regained popularity in cognitive science, especially in the context of experimental studies on the underpinnings of the phenomenal self. The goal of this paper is to take a step back from cognitive science and ...

  16. The Concept of the Self in Psychoanalytic Theory and its Philosophical

    Both self psychology and ego psychology, with their contrasting positions on the self as a menial structure, retrace paths taken by Western philosophy beginning at least with Hume and Descartes. They reflect traditional philosophic questions, notably of a homuncular self internal to consciousness and the isolation of the subject from other selves.

  17. A New Integrative Model of the Self

    Key points. Research and scholarship on the nature of the self have yielded conflicting messages, but a new model helps frame the self in a coherent way. The model suggests that the self emerges ...

  18. PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE THE SELF ACCORDING TO

    THE SELF ACCORDING TO PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Prepared by: Paul Vincent B. Galgo LPT "The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best". ... Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality 1930: Civilization and its Discontent 1. SIGMUND FREUD'S PSYCHOANALYSIS The unconscious is the true psychical ...

  19. The Narrative Self

    Abstract. This article examines the narrative approach to self found in philosophy and related disciplines. The strongest versions of the narrative approach hold that both a person's sense of self and a person's life are narrative in structure, and this is called the hermeneutical narrative theory. This article provides a provisional picture of ...

  20. Essay on the Self: Top 8 Essays

    Essay on the Development and Formation of the Self. Essay on the Acquisition of Language in the Process of Self-Development. Essay on the Self and Social Behaviour. Essay on the Self-Related Issues. Essay # 1. Meaning of Self: Different psychologists and sociologists have tended to look at the self in different ways.

  21. Lesson 4 The Psychological Perspective of the Self

    The Psychological Perspective of the Self. William James's Concept of Self: The Me-Self and the I-Self. William James, a Philosopher and Psychologist, developed a theory of self - consciousness in his work, Principles of Psychology , which was published in 1890. James discusses the composition of what makes the Self, and breaks it down into ...

  22. Module 4

    2. It also covers Carl Jung's view of the self as the central archetype within our collective unconscious. Jung believed we develop through interacting systems like our ego, personal unconscious, and collective unconscious. 3. Finally, the document summarizes Sigmund Freud's structures of personality as the id, ego, and superego, and

  23. Psychological Self Essay

    psychological self essay - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. The document discusses the author's journey of reconciling their true self with their ideal self through overcoming insecurities and pursuing their potential. As a shy child, the author found courage to perform in a school dance, which helped build confidence.

  24. Selfies and the Self

    They say that the practice of using a selfie offers benefits to both identity and the quest for authenticity. [1] It is common knowledge that adolescents and young adults are still growing ...