Constructing the self /
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| Author / Creator: | Hardcastle, Valerie Gray. |
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 186 pages) : illustrations. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; v. 73 Advances in consciousness research ; v. 73. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11194125 |
Table of Contents:
- On being a person
- Personhood
- Re-identification
- Characterization
- Whither narrativity
- Persons vs. selves redux
- Against narrativity
- Clive and the Pirahã : narrative counter-examples?
- Self stories
- A brief and skewed primer on narratology
- The point of nonliterary nonfiction
- The structure of self narratives
- The function of personal narratives
- The development of self
- Piaget's legacy
- A different interpretation
- The importance of emotional attachment
- Life stories
- Cognition as narrative instrument
- Emotional interlude
- The social construction of emotion
- Appraisal theories of emotion
- The continuum hypothesis
- Cortical emotions
- Multiple processing systems
- Dynamic dual systems : a speculative hypothesis
- Unconscious mental life
- Mental content
- An "intelligent" unconscious?
- A "dumb" unconscious
- Philosopher's redux
- Unconscious narratives and unconscious selves
- Multiplex and multiple selves
- Questioning the continuum view of dissociative disorders
- Multiplex selves
- Unconstrained storytelling
- Implications
- Life at the borders
- Weak wills
- Addictions
- Addiction as a life-habit
- Self-control
- Tourette's syndrome and other assorted tics
- Death, violence and the myth of autonomy
- The assumption of autonomy
- Rational suicide
- Violence and the prefrontal cortex
- Whither autonomy?