Comments on Joseph Sandler’s ‘On the Concept of the Superego’

2016 ◽  
pp. 127-134
Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott
Keyword(s):  
Oedipus Complex ◽  
British Society ◽  
True Self ◽  
Stages Of Development ◽  
False Self ◽  
Parental Figures ◽  
Psychic Reality

Winnicott’s comments on a paper given to the British Society by Joseph Sandler entitled ‘On the Concept of the Superego’. For Winnicott, Sandler’s work, though relevant to the Freudian concept of the super ego, does not address dreams, psychic reality and fantasy sufficiently. He refers to the importance of Klein’s work, but also to his own paper, ‘Mind in Relation to the Psyche Soma’ and to his concepts of the True self and False self. For Winnicott, the period before the establishment of the superego at the oedipal stage must be considered first. Here there is little autonomy of the early self and thus little capacity to internalise the parental figures and establish the super ego. Winnicott criticizes Sandler for not fully addressing and defining these matters of the very early pre-superego stages of development but agrees that, in health, the classical superego, belonging to the passing of the Oedipus complex, can be observed.

scholarly journals KEINDAHAN SEBAGAI ELEMEN SPIRITUAL PERSPEKTIF ISLAM TRADISIONAL

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andi Herawati
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Journey ◽  
True Self ◽  
False Self ◽  
Human Need ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Traditional Islam ◽  
The Way

Beauty for most part eventually seen as the science of form, more than that is of the essential part of human living and the way we look at it by the time become more discern as it invites the philosophical vibration. It becomes a consiousness through the questions about the creation of the cosmos and meditation upon the Almighty. Whether aware or not, human need beauty through out their living, at the same time is a spiritual journey. Beauty in Traditional Islam is also able to ascending human, create the the awareness of plurality, and at the last it aso to born out the sense of the Sacred manifested thorugh the form of art, culture, calligraphy, and the whole cosmos. At last, beauty has its role in spiritual journey through self emptiness, from the false self to the true self.

scholarly journals Identity, transcendence and the true self: Insights from psychology and contemplative spirituality

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carter Haynes
Keyword(s):  
Carl Jung ◽  
True Self ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
False Self ◽  
Holistic Thinking ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Spiritual Transcendence ◽  
Viktor Frankl ◽  
Thomas Merton ◽  
Contemplative Spirituality

This article investigates the intersection of psychology and spirituality as seen through the works of Thomas Merton, Carl Jung, Fritz Kunkel and Viktor Frankl. The themes of spirituality contextualised in human identity, psychological and spiritual transcendence, and the true self versus false self metaphor are traced through the works of all four thinkers. Epistemological flexibility and holistic thinking and being are suggested as methods for transforming interdisciplinary practitioners, such as pastoral counsellors, spiritual directors and spiritually oriented psychotherapists, in order that they can offer care in a less bifurcated and more integrated way. Practical applications, including a vignette and specific recommendations for broadening and deepening personal and professional integrative practice, are offered.

The development of multiple role-related selves during adolescence

1997 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 835-853 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUSAN HARTER ◽  
SHELLEY BRESNICK ◽  
HEATHER A. BOUCHEY ◽  
NANCY R. WHITESELL
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Perceived Support ◽  
Narrative Construction ◽  
True Self ◽  
Gender Orientation ◽  
False Self ◽  
Feminine Gender ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relational Contexts

The organization of the adolescent self-portrait is discussed within a framework that focuses on the construction of multiple self-representations across different relational contexts. Contradictions between self-attributes in different contexts create conflict, beginning in midadolescence when cognitive-developmental structures allow one to detect but not resolve opposing attributes. Conflict is greater across roles than within roles. Moreover, for certain roles (e.g., self with mother vs. self with father) conflict is higher. Females, particularly those with a feminine gender orientation, report greater conflict involving attributes in more public contexts. Opposing self-attributes also raise concerns for adolescents about which attributes reflect true versus false self-behaviors. Conflict is more frequent for opposing attributes that pit true against false self-characteristics. False self-behavior is associated with liabilities including devaluation of false self-attributes, low self-esteem, and depressive reactions. Perceived support across relational contexts is highly predictive of favorable evaluations of attributes, high self-esteem, and true self-behavior within corresponding contexts. Strategies for resolving potential contradictions in self-attributes would appear to emerge as one moves into late adolescence and adulthood, when multiple self-representations are perceived as both appropriate and desirable, and the individual can achieve some degree of integration through higher level abstractions and the narrative construction of his or her life story.

Chaos

2016 ◽  
pp. 153-156
Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott
Keyword(s):  
Normal Function ◽  
The Self ◽  
True Self ◽  
External Reality ◽  
False Self ◽  
The Creation

In this chapter, Winnicott explores the concept of chaos, with reference to the internal world, preferring to think of it as un-integration. The defensive states that may follow may also be protected by enabling sufficient capacity for illusion in the growing self, but, if this is not the case, splitting within the self—a normal function—can become excessive. This leads to the disruption of the true self with its capacity for spontaneity and the creation of a false self with overcompliance to external reality. The states of disintegration, dissociation, and repression are defined.

scholarly journals Being yourself in adolescence? False self as a predictor of depression: the role of self-esteem and anxiety

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lenka Vargová ◽  
Ľubica Zibrínová ◽  
Gabriel Baník
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Development ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
True Self ◽  
False Self ◽  
Moderation Effect ◽  
Study Offer

Many adolescents feel that their true self is not good enough for others, so may choose to adopt false self behavior. In the context of adolescent development, false self and low self-esteem are risk factors of depression and anxiety. This study aims to analyze relationships among false self, self-esteem, anxiety, and depression, in 134 adolescents. Three hierarchical linear models with moderation effect were tested. Was found that adolescent‘s low self-esteem plays an important role in the manifestation of false-self behavior, and a higher level of anxiety amplify this relationship. The study offer that lower level of anxiety can weaken relationship between low self-esteem and false self, what may play an important role in maladaptive development in adolescents.

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