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"An increasing number of psychologists argue that people give meaning to their lives by constructing and internalizing self-defining stories. The contributors to this volume explore how, beginning in adolescence and young adulthood, our narrative identities become the stories we…
"What is the best way to understand the narratives of self-identity at the beginning of the 21st century? This interdisciplinary collection brings together perspectives from analytical psychology, sociology, psychiatry, psychosocial studies and psychoanalysis to consider questio…
This book argues that, rather than being conceived merely as a hindrance, the body contributes constructively in the fashioning of a Platonic unified self. The Phaedo shows awareness that the indeterminacy inherent in the body infects the validity of any scientific argument but …
Die Studie untersucht anhand kulturwissenschaftlicher Theorien zum kulturellen Gedächtnis und den Ansätzen der Narrativen Psychologie Thomas Manns narrative Strategien der Identitätskonstruktion vor dem zeitgeschichtlichen Hintergrund des Exils. Die Korrelation zwischen Text, Au…
"The Lost Self: Pathologies of the Brain and Identity is an in-depth exploration of one of the most mysterious and controversial topics in neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and psychology - namely, the search for the biological basis of the self. The book is a guide to underst…
Identities: time, difference, and boundaries
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Identity has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview of its use.
"Identity" has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how this concept is currently used and ho…
What we don't know about learning could fill a book - and it might be a schoolbook. In a masterful commentary on the possibilities of education, the eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it often fails to do so. Ap…