The demanded self
Subtitle: Levinasian ethics and identity in psychology
By: David M.Goodman
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780820704494
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Ethics; Psychology
Description: "Goodman demonstrates how the ethical dimension of human experience has too frequently been neglected within psychology's present constructs of the self and argues that the philosophical work of Emmanuel Levinas, whose work establishes an originary ethical attunement to the other person, can provide a radical corrective to such morally anemic definitions of the modern self. Includes clinical examples"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction : the self out of which we live; title: Jewgreek.greekjew : a translation of Hebrew into Greek; title: The idol of reason : from a disengaged self to a dis-interested ethics; title: The normal bell-shaped self : from immanentization of knowledge to transcendence of the other; title: The buffered self : from the individual subject to a subjected individual; title: Hineni and transference : the remembering and forgetting of the other; title: Hearing "thou shalt not kill" : psychoanalysis, enactment, and; title: Levinasian ethics; title: The psyche awakened : the other as a trauma that heals; title: References; title: Endnotes.