Fifth Study

2019 ◽  
pp. 115-142
Author(s):  
Nikhil Govind
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
The Self ◽  
Moral Action ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
Negative Affects

The fifth and last chapter gathers together the threads of the previous chapters’ meditations on subjectivity—a subjectivity that may first be triggered by a sense of injustice, subjectivity that is often sharpened by powerful negative affects such as humiliation, or developed over the course of a lifetime as it navigates difficult life experiences. The oeuvre of Krishna Sobti is an apt summation of the themes of the previous chapters. Sobti’s characters too negotiate subjectivity vis a vis difficult family relationships (especially mothers and daughters), the legitimate wife vis-à-vis extramarital establishments and children, or again, the self vis-à-vis the darkness of depression. Few people round off the theme of subjectivity, affect, and meaningful moral action in an anguished and confusing world than Sobti’s protagonists, so it is fitting that the book ends with her.

scholarly journals Phenomenological approaches to personal identity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakub Čapek ◽  
Sophie Loidolt
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
The Self ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Social ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Continental Tradition ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Temporal Becoming

AbstractThis special issue addresses the debate on personal identity from a phenomenological viewpoint, especially contemporary phenomenological research on selfhood. In the introduction, we first offer a brief survey of the various classic questions related to personal identity according to Locke’s initial proposal and sketch out key concepts and distinctions of the debate that came after Locke. We then characterize the types of approach represented by post-Hegelian, German and French philosophies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We argue that whereas the Anglophone debates on personal identity were initially formed by the persistence question and the characterization question, the “Continental” tradition included remarkably intense debates on the individual or the self as being unique or “concrete,” deeply temporal and—as claimed by some philosophers, like Sartre and Foucault—unable to have any identity, if not one externally imposed. We describe the Continental line of thinking about the “self” as a reply and an adjustment to the post-Lockean “personal identity” question (as suggested by thinkers such as MacIntyre, Ricœur and Taylor). These observations constitute the backdrop for our presentation of phenomenological approaches to personal identity. These approaches run along three lines: (a) debates on the layers of the self, starting from embodiment and the minimal self and running all the way to the full-fledged concept of person; (b) questions of temporal becoming, change and stability, as illustrated, for instance, by aging or transformative life-experiences; and (c) the constitution of identity in the social, institutional, and normative space. The introduction thus establishes a structure for locating and connecting the different contributions in our special issue, which, as an ensemble, represent a strong and differentiated contribution to the debate on personal identity from a phenomenological perspective.

Psychosocial assessments with adults

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Psychosocial Assessment ◽  
Social State ◽  
Practical Advice ◽  
The Social ◽  
State Examination ◽  
Negative Judgement

The chapter covers the psychosocial assessment in detail, giving an approach to complex areas such as early life experiences and memories of sexual abuse. Advice is given on how to assess personality, including how to gain collateral history and navigate issues of negative judgement relating to personality disorder as well as issues to do with the separation of personality disorder from normality. The chapter aims to increase doctors’ confidence with how to assess family relationships, structures, and cycles and how to hold family interviews. A scheme for supplanting and extending information about the social state of the patient is given, including information on carers. The chapter ends by considering culture in psychiatric assessment and gives practical advice on enhancing communication and avoiding pitfalls in history taking and mental state examination across culture and on achieving cultural formulations..

Children who Poison Themselves I. A Clinical Comparison with Psychiatric Controls

1984 ◽  
Vol 145 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Taylor ◽  
S. A. Stansfeld
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Clinical Information ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
Clinical Comparison ◽  
Medical Emergencies ◽  
Psychiatric Intervention ◽  
To Come

SummaryFifty schoolchildren, admitted as medical emergencies after poisoning themselves, were compared with 50 matched controls, resident in the same area of London, referred for psychiatric help for other reasons. The dependent measures were based upon systematically recorded clinical information in both groups. The self-poisoners showed more psychiatric symptoms and more disturbed family relationships than did the psychiatric group; they were more likely to meet criteria for depressive disorder and to come from families showing little warmth. This form of self-injury is not trivial or wholly culturally determined, and it warrants psychiatric intervention.

scholarly journals The Self-Action Leadership Model: A Qualitative, Nomological Expansion of Self-Leadership Theory Rooted in Action Research Theory

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Jensen ◽  
Christopher Neck ◽  
Rodney Beaulieu
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Leadership Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Leadership Practice ◽  
Leadership Model ◽  
Personal Leadership ◽  
Explicit Training ◽  
Ongoing Project

In 2015, the Self-Action Leadership Theory—a qualitative, nomological expansion of self-leadership theory rooted in atmospheric and astronomical metaphor aimed at expanding the personal freedom of individuals, organizations, and nations by bolstering the existential growth of individuals through a series of Maslow-esque stages of holistic, personal development. This article introduces an accompanying, practitioner-based Model of Self-Action Leadership (SAL) aimed at the implicit enhancement of a holistic range of administrative processes through explicit training, mentoring, and coaching in the model’s general and universally-applicable principles and practices. The SAL model produces an original construct of personal leadership practice that builds upon the extant self-leadership academic canon, which dates back to 1983 (Manz, 1983). It also provides an analogue to four of the five core processes of Project Management by positioning a self-action leader (an individual) as the ongoing “project” at hand. The SAL Model is rooted in action research and was developed through a variety of self-oriented, action research projects in conjunction with a comprehensive, qualitative, analytical autoethnographic study of a scholar’s life experiences.

scholarly journals The Restitution of the Past: Autofictional Memory in El azul de las abejas by Laura Alcoba

Anclajes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-166
Author(s):  
Enzo Matías Menestrina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
In Transit ◽  
Literary Experience

The construction of identity in contemporary literature of the self has become a recurring fact in recent years. The limits that blur autofictions, where hazy boundaries separate the real from the fictitious, allow for life experiences to become diluted within the literary experience. Within the context of exile, all forms of identity construction are placed “in transit”: a learning process that involves an adaptation to a new territory and a new language. The second volume in Laura Alcoba’s trilogy, El azul de las abejas (2014 [2013]), shows how the exiled subject’s identity is constructed as a result of the changes arising from linguistic configuration and learning.

The Vulnerability of Integrity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. K. Ing
Keyword(s):  
Social Value ◽  
The Self ◽  
Moral Action ◽  
Value Conflict ◽  
Value Conflicts ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Confucian Self ◽  
The Way

This chapter begins with a description of the Confucian self and then discusses the porous nature of this self with regard to the connections and boundaries that are seen to exist between the individual and others. The majority focuses on integrity, which is explained in terms of de德‎. The notion of de德‎ highlights the charismatic aspects of integrity such that integrity in an early Confucian context is understood as a power to motivate others to perform their roles in relationships. This power is obstructed or weakened in situations of irresolvable value conflict. De德‎ is a social value associated with the way in which moral actions enable the realization of the self, which is partially constituted by relationships. Integrity, as such, is vulnerable to irresolvable value conflicts and unfortunate situations because in those circumstances moral action is impeded such that meaningful relations cannot be maintained.

scholarly journals Redesign Me: Virtual Reality Experience of the Line of Life and Its Connection to a Healthier Self

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iva Georgieva ◽  
Georgi V. Georgiev
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
The Self ◽  
Life Narratives ◽  
Narrative Self ◽  
The Past ◽  
Alternative Scenarios ◽  
The Way

Virtual Reality is used in various ways for creating a storytelling experience. It gives us the opportunity to imagine one’s life events as a story, and in settings that are intended to aid the self, such as treatment of trauma, anxiety, phobia, etc. This paper discusses the ways that challenging experiences change the way people perceive their life narratives and form their memories. This paper suggests that virtual reality (VR) can be used for the exploration of alternative scenarios in order to see one’s overall line of life in a new and healthier way. Considering the theoretical background of the narrative self, this research proposes a novel view of VR immersion as a medium for constructing a new storyline and attitude to the past. The approach would also influence attitudes regarding the present and future, and thus better shape the narrative of the self, which can lead to healthier life experiences.

scholarly journals Moral Credentials, Intergroup Attitudes, and Regulatory Focus Interactively Affect Support for Affirmative Action

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fanny Lalot ◽  
Juan M. Falomir-Pichastor
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
The Self ◽  
Motivational Orientation ◽  
Moral Action ◽  
Intergroup Attitudes ◽  
Behavioral Consistency ◽  
Moral Self ◽  
Do So

Abstract People generally tend to stay consistent in their attitudes and actions but can feel licensed to act less-than-virtuously when an initial moral action provides an excuse to do so (i.e., moral self-licensing). A handful of studies have tested how relevant initial attitudes moderate the self-licensing effect but yielded mixed findings: Initial attitudes either decrease, increase, or do not influence licensing dynamics. To account for these inconsistent findings, we propose that the effect of attitudes could itself interact with other factors, notably motivational orientation. We conducted two studies taking into account initial attitudes, absence/presence of moral credentials, and participants’ chronic regulatory focus. Drawing from self-completion theory, we expected self-licensing to occur specifically amongst prevention-focused participants holding positive intergroup attitudes. Results supported this prediction. Prevention-focused participants with positive intergroup attitudes supported affirmative action policies to a lesser extent when they had acquired moral credentials, as compared to when they had not (i.e., self-licensing), t(329) = –3.79, p < .001, d = –.42, 95% CI [–.64, –.20]. Additionally, promotion-focused participants holding positive intergroup attitudes supported affirmative action policies to a greater extent when they had acquired moral credentials (i.e., behavioral consistency), t(329) = 2.44, p = .015, d = .27, 95% CI [.05, .49].

scholarly journals “I Need My Children to Know That I Will Always Be Here for Them”: Young Care Leavers’ Experiences With Their Own Motherhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina

SAGE Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824401881991
Author(s):  
Lucía Coler
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Care Leavers ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship

For care leavers in Argentina, the transition to an autonomous lifestyle is a process that begins at 18 years old when they are no longer protected by Children’s Rights laws. This transition is particularly challenging without any family support, and studies have demonstrated that female care leavers are likely to have children within the first few years after leaving care. The aim of this research is to explore and analyze young women’s identities, experiences, and perceptions about their own motherhood and family relationships after leaving the institutional care system in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Throughout a qualitative, small-scale study using life-history interviews, an insight of how these young women’s life experiences have influenced their identities is obtained. In this respect, the findings suggest that female care leavers offer a different type of childhood to their own children than the childhood they experienced, thus providing security, health, education, and love for their children. Moreover, an ambivalent relationship with their birth families has encouraged these women to develop their autonomy with new, meaningful bonds. Finally, motherhood and community participation have empowered these young women and promoted their agency.

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