Constructing the self
By: Valerie Gray Hardcastle.
Series: Advances in consciousness research -- v. 73
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9789027252098
Subjects: Self
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On being a person; title: Personhood; title: Re-identification; title: Characterization; title: Whither narrativity; title: Persons vs. selves redux; title: Against narrativity; title: Clive and the pirahã : narrative counter-examples; title: Self stories; title: A brief and skewed primer on narratology; title: The point of nonliterary nonfiction; title: The structure of self narratives; title: The function of personal narratives; title: The development of self; title: Piaget's legacy; title: A different interpretation; title: The importance of emotional attachment; title: Life stories; title: Cognition as narrative instrument; title: Emotional interlude; title: The social construction of emotion; title: Appraisal theories of emotion; title: The continuum hypothesis; title: Constructing the self; title: Cortical emotions; title: Multiple processing systems; title: Dynamic dual systems : a speculative hypothesis; title: Unconscious mental life; title: Mental content; title: An intelligent unconscious; title: A dumb unconscious; title: Philosopher's redux; title: Unconscious narratives and unconscious selves; title: Multiplex and multiple selves; title: Questioning the continuum view of dissociative disorders; title: Multiplex selves; title: Unconstrained storytelling; title: Implications; title: Life at the borders; title: Weak wills; title: Addictions; title: Addiction as a life-habit; title: Self-control; title: Tourette's syndrome and other assorted tics; title: Death, violence, and the myth of autonomy; title: The assumption of autonomy; title: Rational suicide; title: Violence and the prefrontal cortex; title: Whither autonomy.