From Inner Experience to the Self-Formation of Psychological Persons

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-56
Author(s):  
Thomas Alkemeyer

Two forms or rather perspectives of observations appear alongside practice theories: The first perspective can be called the „theatre perspective“: practice here is observed as a regular, spatiotemporally ordered, socially structured, and therefore recognizable historical form of „practical doings and sayings“, in which participants are understood as mere carriers of practices and their bodies as the raw material for processes of formation. In the other perspective, understood as the perspective of the participants themselves, practices come into view as ongoing, conflictual, and contingent accomplishments, in which participants occur as intelligently collaborating contributors with so called „lived bodies“. These bodies are affectable, sites of experience, and media of a sensitivity that allow an embodied self to orientate itself (with)in a practice. This paper proposes a methodological mediation of both perspectives by taking into account both a sociological analysis of discipline, formation, or adjustment, and the reflexive sensing in action, which can be modeled phenomenologically. Thus, a „lived-body-in-accomplishment“ comes into view that serves the material basis of subjectivation procceses, i. e. the (self-)formation of a constitutionally conditioned (political) agency.


2004 ◽  
Vol 97-98 ◽  
pp. 77-84
Author(s):  
Juras Ulbikas ◽  
Liudas Leonas ◽  
Daiva Ulbikienė ◽  
Stepas Janušonis

Self-formation as a concept for irreversible evolution of the artificial object with complexity increase was introduced for understanding of the processes existing in microelectronics technology [1]. The concept of self-formation by itself was to some extend influenced by principles existing in biological world therefore from the very beginning there was an open question about limits of self-formation application: are we limited to the understanding of some technological processes or we can think about predicting new technological applications by applying selfformation concept. Recently developed tools for simulation of technological processes for Solar Cells manufacturing [2] clearly indicates that self-formation is becoming interesting tool for technologists trying to create and optimize microelectronic devices. The next step exploring selfformation application boundaries can be analysis of possibilities of the self-formation to demonstrate usual in biological life development and reproduction of the object. This presentation will be dedicated to the analysis of the conditions and possibilities by applying self-formation present self-formation, development and reproduction of artificial object.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baird Campbell ◽  
Nell Haynes

Abstract The papers in this special section examine how people in various contexts of the Global South “construct the self” in online spaces. With examples from Chile, Senegal, and Trinidad, the papers show the wide range of discursive practices, encompassing the textual and the aesthetic, which individuals use to enact gendered and sexual selves online. By privileging gender and sexuality as central components of selfhood, we draw from the longstanding attention paid to gender and sexuality in linguistic studies of identification (see Bucholtz & Hall 2004). In placing this concept within digital worlds, we pay attention to the ways in which daily life is now lived and experienced online. Authors in this issue think critically about practices of self-formation and the performance of gender and sexuality that differ from those that have normalized in the Global North, considering both revolutionary possibility, and re-entrenchment of constraint.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 119-131
Author(s):  
Maisie Beth James ◽  
Caroline Stockman

Drawing on somatic practice, psychology, philosophy and the dance experience, this article operationalizes Sartre’s ideological response to movement pedagogy. The ‘thisness’ experience of embodiment during traditional dance styles negatively impacts on the realization of our body’s somatic potential. However, Sartre’s ‘body-for-itself’ mode can be stimulated with certain somatic practices, due to the concentration on the inner experience and sensations present in the body. In this sense, the body becomes a learning outcome in itself, through a deep and respectful connection with the dancer’s inner being. Pedagogically, this combination of Sartre’s theory with holistic techniques of the self, specifically the fundamental principles of Feldenkrais and dance literacy, can benefit the realization of individual potential during dance, and optimize positive embodiment. This article discusses initial materializations of the learning experiences of the dance student, informed by Sartre’s thinking on embodiment, and a theoretical discussion of the pedagogical implications of Sartre’s ideas for somatic pedagogy in contemporary dance.


2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-173
Author(s):  
Liu Xingjun ◽  
Wang Cuiping ◽  
Ikuo Ohnuma ◽  
Ryosuke Kainuma ◽  
Kiyohito Ishida ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Vanessa Maria Gomes BARBOZA ◽  
Ana Paula Abrahamian de SOUZA

RESUMOO presente artigo é parte das análises da pesquisa autobiográfica em educação, movimentos sociais e práticas coletivas, sobre o processo de autoformação das mulheres negras evangélicas ativistas sociais no Brasil. O lócus da investigação é o movimento progressista evangélico, especificamente da recém-criada Rede de Mulheres Negras Evangélicas (2018) das quais fazem parte a pesquisadora as interlocutoras da pesquisa. Por meio do método autobiográfico e das epistemologias feministas construiu-se o caminho metodológico de aproximação e sistematização da realidade, e da analise interpretativa as reflexões das categorias: Experiência, Diálogo e Prática Política sobre as quais se buscou conhecer a importância do movimento social no processo de autoformação das sujeitas da pesquisa. Os resultados indicam uma autoformação comprometida com a mudança social, com a luta antirracista e antissexista, e com a construção de identidades dissidentes em meio ao conservadorismo e fundamentalismo religioso fortemente presente na sociedade brasileira.Autoformação. Negras Evangélicas. Movimento Social. Evangelical Black Women and the Self-Training Process ABSTRACT This article is part of the analysis of autobiographical research on education, social movements and collective practices, about the self-formation process of black evangelical social activists in Brazil. The locus of the investigation is the progressive evangelical movement, specifically the newly created Evangelical Black Women Network (2018) of which the researcher is the interlocutor of the research. Through the autobiographical method and feminist epistemologies, the methodological way of approaching and systematizing reality was constructed, and the interpretative analysis the reflections of the categories: Experience, Dialogue and Political Practice, which sought to know the importance of social movement in the process. self-training of the research subjects. The results indicate a self-formation committed to social change, anti-racist and antisexist struggle, and the construction of dissident identities amidst conservatism and religious fundamentalism strongly present in Brazilian society.Self-training. Black Evangelicals. Social Movement. Mujeres evangélicas negras y el proceso de Auto-FormaciónRESUMENEste artículo es parte del análisis de la investigación autobiográfica en educación, movimientos sociales y prácticas colectivas, sobre el proceso de auto formación de mujeres negras evangélicas activistas sociales en Brasil. El centro de la investigación es el movimiento progresista evangélico, específicamente la Red de Mujeres Negras Evangélicas (2018) recientemente creada, de la cual la investigadora y los interlocutores de investigación forman parte. A través del método autobiográfico y las epistemologías feministas, se construyó el camino metodológico de aproximación y sistematización de la realidad, y se construyeron las interpretaciones de las reflexiones de las categorías: Experiencia, Diálogo y Práctica Política sobre las cuales buscamos conocer la importancia del movimiento social en el proceso de auto-formación de las sujetas de investigación. Los resultados indican una auto-formación comprometida con el cambio social, con la lucha antirracista y antisexualista, y con la construcción de identidades disidentes en medio del conservadurismo y fundamentalismo religioso fuertemente presente en la sociedad brasileña.Autoformación. Negras evangélicas. Movimiento social. Donne evangeliche nere e processo di auto-formazione SINTESEQuesto articolo fa parte dell'analisi della ricerca autobiografica in educazione, movimenti sociali e pratiche collettive, sul processo di auto-formazione delle attiviste sociali delle donne di colore evangeliche in Brasile. Il focus della ricerca è il movimento evangelico progressivo, in particolare la nuova Evangelical Black Women Network (2018), di cui fanno parte il ricercatore e i partner di ricerca. Attraverso il metodo autobiografico e le epistemologie femministe, è stato costruito il percorso metodologico di approssimazione e sistematizzazione della realtà e sono state costruite le interpretazioni delle riflessioni delle categorie: esperienza, dialogo e pratica politica su cui cerchiamo di conoscere l'importanza del movimento sociale nel processo di auto-formazione delle materie di ricerca. I risultati indicano un'auto-formazione impegnata nel cambiamento sociale, con la lotta antirazzista e antisessualista e con la costruzione di identità dissidenti tra conservatorismo e fondamentalismo religioso fortemente presenti nella società brasiliana.Auto-allenamento. Neri evangelici. Movimento sociale.


2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-46
Author(s):  
Magnus Granberg

This analysis of the work of George Herbert Mead and Alfred Sohn-Rethel compares their respective accounts of the formation of the self. The analysis proceeds from two important similarities: the effort to understand self-consciousness not as primordial but as the product of social processes, and the view that these processes form a circuit: the self arises from consciousness’ return to itself, concluding a movement whereby consciousness is first externalized onto objects and then internalized, taking on the insular shape of self-consciousness. What sets the two accounts apart is the site from whence the self returns: objects. In Mead, the self returns from meaningful objects, and this same (intersubjective) meaning is entangled with the process of self-formation. In contrast, for Sohn-Rethel, the self returns from objects whose meaning is not established intersubjectively but objectively: the self is the unintended consequence of commodity exchange. In Mead, interaction among people affords meaning to objects and thus evokes the self; in Sohn-Rethel, interaction among commodities evokes an objective meaning that renders people as selves. Interpretative sociology should attend to the objectively and unconsciously meaningful forms analyzed by Sohn-Rethel. To illustrate this conclusion, reference is made to a certain experience of the social under neoliberalism.


Author(s):  
Laura Marcus

The concepts of time, memory, and identity, which are central to autobiographical theory, are also perennial concerns of philosophers, who have given widely differing account of them, both in their formal philosophical work and in their more personal reflections. ‘Autobiographical consciousness’ takes the autobiographies of predominantly Western philosophers—including Descartes, Montaigne, Hume, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir—as central examples, and focuses on their representations of memory, the self in and through time, concepts of subjectivity, identity, and consciousness, and self-formation or ‘becoming’. It also discusses recent theories of ‘autobiographical consciousness’, including the works of Jerome Bruner and Antonio Damasio.


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