| Description |
xiii, 263 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: PART I -- The centrality of place for selfhood 1 -- Introduction 3 -- 1 Selves and the need to navigate human worlds: a cultural psychological approach 16 -- 2 The brain's work in locating selves 31 -- 3 Placing oneself in personal time: the narrative structure of self 45 -- 4 Moral identity and cultural-historical locations for self 59 -- 5 Self-creation as self-location 73 -- 6 Pronouns placing selves: 'I' and its associates 88 -- 7 Feeling your way: emotions as self's pathfinders 103 --PART II -- Location, dislocation and relocation: responsibility, caring, art and changing prospects 119 -- Introduction 121 -- 8 Childhood, responsibility and acquiring powers to place oneself as a moral agent 130 -- 9 Pitilessness and compassion: caring where others are 146 -- 10 Suffering, radical dislocation and the limits of moral responsibility 161 -- 11 Being moved: art, self and positive absorption 176 -- 12 Points of view and none: visual art and the location of self 192 -- 13 Individual and national identity: analogy, symbiosis and artistic process 206 -- 14 Psychologies of maturity: development or destination? 222 --CONCLUSION 237 -- Navigating human worlds 239 -- Bibliography 244 -- Index 255 |
| Summary |
"The Cultural Psychology of Self is an exploration of how people navigate human worlds. It offers a powerful understanding of 'self' as the system through which we became capable of locating ourselves in our worlds, and of finding our ways around them." "Ciaran Benson introduces the field of cultural psychology specifically as it relates to 'self', and applies this understanding in a distinctively original way to themes of great moral and aesthetic importance. These include explorations of responsibility and childhood, pitilessness and compassion, suffering and guilt, visual art and the changing engagement of the spectator, connections between national and personal identity, and the critical analysis of psychological ideals of human development. The volume reflects the wide range of cultural psychology, which is in dialogue with disciplines as diverse as neuroscience and history, while at the same time reaching for an economic account of self based on the ideas of location, dislocation and relocation. In the latter part of the book, Benson makes extensive use of literature on the Holocaust and on aesthetic experiences of the visual arts to contrast phenomena of self-diminution with those of self-expansion. While not neglecting the centrality of neuroscientific and evolutionary accounts of self, this book speaks particularly to the historical, moral and artistic territories of cultural-historical psychology." "The Cultural Psychology of Self is a story of what being part of physical and social worlds makes of us, and of contemporary ways in which self can be understood as a means of navigating them."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-254) and index |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Culture -- Psychological aspects.
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Self psychology.
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| LC no. |
00055313 |
| ISBN |
0415089042 (cased) |
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0415089050 (paperback) |
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