scholarly journals Uncovering the Self: Identity and Otherness in Irish Fiction (Barry, Beckett and Banville)

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 152-163
Author(s):  
Paul Mihai Paraschiv ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Self Discovery

"Fiction seems to be bound to the discovery of the self and the other. By engaging in ethical readings, literature can become a fruitful space of interaction in which the reader and text can communicate in order to make an acquaintance with otherness. In this regard, the present paper consists of several analyses on Irish fiction that propose explorations into the quest of self-discovery. As it stands, self-identity is iterated in terms of knowing both the self and the other and therefore discovering alterity. Through the works of Barry, Beckett and Banville, we intend to demonstrate various approaches towards self-identity and analyse how they came into fruition."

Self, Indian theories of

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.S. Rukmani
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Inner Self ◽  
Spiritual Energy ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Ultimate Principle ◽  
Ultimate Nature

Hindu thought traces its different conceptions of the self to the earliest extant Vedic sources composed in the Sanskrit language. The words commonly used in Hindu thought and religion for the self are jīva (life), ātman (breath), jīvātman (life-breath), puruṣa (the essence that lies in the body), and kṣetrajña (one who knows the body). Each of these words was the culmination of a process of inquiry with the purpose of discovering the ultimate nature of the self. By the end of the ancient period, the personal self was regarded as something eternal which becomes connected to a body in order to exhaust the good and bad karma it has accumulated in its many lives. This self was supposed to be able to regain its purity by following different spiritual paths by means of which it can escape from the circle of births and deaths forever. There is one more important development in the ancient and classical period. The conception of Brahman as both immanent and transcendent led to Brahman being identified with the personal self. The habit of thought that tried to relate every aspect of the individual with its counterpart in the universe (Ṛg Veda X. 16) had already prepared the background for this identification process. When the ultimate principle in the subjective and objective spheres had arrived at their respective ends in the discovery of the ātman and Brahman, it was easy to equate the two as being the same spiritual ‘energy’ that informs both the outer world and the inner self. This equation had important implications for later philosophical growth. The above conceptions of the self-identity question find expression in the six systems of Hindu thought. These are known as āstikadarśanas or ways of seeing the self without rejecting the authority of the Vedas. Often, one system or the other may not explicitly state their allegiance to the Vedas, but unlike Buddhism or Jainism, they did not openly repudiate Vedic authority. Thus they were āstikadarśanas as opposed to the others who were nāstikadarśanas. The word darśana for philosophy is also significant if one realizes that philosophy does not end with only an intellectual knowing of one’s self-identity but also culminates in realizing it and truly becoming it.

Tracing Sexual Difference

1998 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Pamela Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Luce Irigaray ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
The Difference

A reading of Luce Irigaray suggests the possibility of tracing sexual difference in philosophical accounts of personal identity. In particular, I argue that Irigaray raises the possibility of moving beyond the aporia of the other which lies at the heart of Paul Ricoeur's account of self-identity. My contention is that the self conceived in Ricoeur's Oneself as Another is male insofar as it is dependent upon the patriarchal monotheism which has shaped Western culture both socially and economically. Nevertheless there remains the possibility of developing Ricoeur's reference to 'the trace of the Other' in order to give a non-essential meaning to sexual difference. Such meaning will emerge when (i) both men and women have identities as subjects, and (ii) the difference between them can be expressed. I aim to elucidate both conditions by appropriating Irigaray's 'Questions to Emmanuel Levinas: On the Divinity of Love.'

Costume and the Self-Extension: The Functions of Costume in Elmer Gantry from the Perspective of Material Culture

2010 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 474-478
Author(s):  
J.W. Luo ◽  
K. Yu
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Inner Self ◽  
The Usa

As the other creation of material culture, clothes have concrete forms, and reflect the wearer’s taste and appreciation of beauty while provide certain social significance. This paper attempts to analyze the connection between the costume of the hero Elmer Gantry in the novel Elmer Gantry and his self-identity, then to discover how the novelist, Sinclair Lewis ,the first Nobel Prize winner in the USA, by describing the costume of the character, explores the different inner self-identities of one man.

Recognition gaps in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-214
Author(s):  
Elie Friedman
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
Essential Aspect ◽  
Recognition Theory ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
The Relationship

This study identifies gaps in official discourse between recognition of the other as a nation and recognition of the other’s right to statehood within identity conflicts. Using as a case study the discourse of Israeli political leaders during three distinct periods from 1967 until the present, the study proposes analytical tools based on recognition theory to examine how the relationship between recognition of the other and constitution of the self impact recognition gaps. The study illustrates that partial recognition of the other — either affirmation of peoplehood coupled with denial of statehood or conversely affirmation of statehood coupled with denial of peoplehood — can result from an untenable view of self based on ontological dissonance. Recognition of the other is shown to be an essential aspect of self-constitution within the context of a transformation of self-identity towards an identity that frees itself of mastery over the other.

scholarly journals FANDOM NATION: IDENTIFYING THE SELF-WORTH OF STUDENT INFLUENCERS OF PHILIPPINE SCHOOL DOHA, A PHENOMENOLOGY

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (02) ◽  
pp. 421-435
Author(s):  
Julius M. Edrosolam ◽  
◽  
Luceno Laurena Denisse ◽  
De Guzman Aaron Christian ◽  
Vital Ian Ezekhiel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Life Challenges ◽  
Self Worth

Background: The study encourages important and essential information gathered from members who are comparative with the actual presentation. Self-identity is the motivation behind this investigation conceptualizes how being a fan recognizes the actual researchers. Distinguishing self-worth in an instruction encompassing is fundamental. Students should be engaged to prepare their entitlement to articulation following their creating limit building self-esteem and procure information and abilities required for contest reason, dynamic, correspondence, and life challenges. Methods: The Qualitative type of research design applied, which utilizes responses inquiring concerning experiences from the participants viewpoint. Findings: This study examines how self-worth affects student influencers by fandom online and offline communities. Which leads to our central question, What are the benefits of social media in identity for the self-worth of selected PSD influencers? The main themes were: Fame and Fortune, Influence, Genuine Enthusiasts, and Entertainment. Fame and Fortune is the idea that manages cooperation and openness of the student influencers subsequently, it is a condition known while Fortune relates to abundance. Influence has an impact and can muchly affect the impression of others on somebody. Influence can be seen anyplace, either in web-based media or anyplace in PSD. The individuals who have a sizable measure of Influence are called influencers. Influencers might be the scaffold to discovering somebodys worth or the other way around, as found in one of the numerous reactions which express. Genuine Enthusiasts allude to the motivation to fulfill such prerequisites and become more grounded the more expanded the range they are denied. Ultimately, Entertainment gives euphoria and fervor to the watchers. Conclusions: Students can struggle to find their self-worth because of the steady difference in their environmental factors. Students in Philippine School Doha are presented to various types of individuals affected by their activities, giving them trouble finding their self-worth in a school loaded with multiple understudies. Recommendations: The data and observations found in this study could show a more concrete answer if it utilized a more significant response. Analyze and identify the behavior in a more detailed and intricate way from which a more paradigm can form.

scholarly journals FENOMENA URBAN SPIRITUALITAS SOLUSI ATAS KEGERSANGAN SPIRITUAL MASYARAKAT KOTA

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-146
Author(s):  
Mohammad Misbah
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Dimension ◽  
Great Chance ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Other Hand

Modernity has given a great chance to modern people to meet and pursue their material needs in one hand, but on the other hand, they may lose the other essential need like happiness, peace of soul, self identity, and self meaning. They lose the "self" and are alienated from themselves and their own World. The rise of NewAge phenomenon in Indonesia was marked by the birth of various spiritual touch / Sufism (mysticism / Sufism) in orderto meet the needs of the essence, happiness, peace of soul, self identity, and the other meanings that is a manifestation of the human dimension. Sufism emerged in a variety of adivities including thosewhich are not related to the organization tariqat, conventional Sufism, which is a form of organization tariqat, and ecledic mysticism, which is a form of religious diversity. From this came a growing spiritual phenomenon in Indonesia, particularly in urban communities (urbanspiritualitas/ urban Sufism) lately.

Troubled Origins: Accounting for Oneself (Derrida with Botho Strauß and Didier Eribon)

Derrida Today ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-90
Author(s):  
Gerhard Richter
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Ecce Homo ◽  
To Come ◽  
Identity Thinking ◽  
Confessional Discourse

Even after the concept of ‘origin’ has been called into question, a troubling wish to speak of origins persists, especially in the narrative act of accounting for one's own origins in confessional discourse. Here, the self encounters the limits of its narratibility, even as it interrogates how, in the Nietzschean sense, it became what it is. This essay explores the question of troubled origins by placing Nietzsche's Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is and Derrida's Monolingualism of the Other; or, the Prosthesis of Origin in syntactical relation with Didier Eribon's Returning to Reims and Botho Strauß's Herkunft ( Origin). The essay meditates on the ways in which a world-oriented longing for identification persists long after the ideas of identity and self-identity have been bid farewell. If there is a kind of survival to be espied in textual acts of confronting one's troubled origins, such survival would have to travel through a language that unfolds on the far side of any conventional identity-thinking. By the same token, this language could never simply resist the conceptual and rhetorical temptation powerfully exerted by the seductive processes of identification. Derrida, Strauß, and Eribon, each in their own idiomatic way, implore us to question just what such textual acts of commemorative survival imply for a thinking to come.

scholarly journals Diving in Sin and Resurfacing with the Discovery of the Self in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 203
Author(s):  
Khalid Sultan Thabet Abdu
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Original Sin ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Robinson Crusoe ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
Western Hegemony

This paper attempts to study the novel of Robinson Crusoe from the perspective of Eurocentric discourse of travel. The paper sheds light on Western hegemony of travel from the metropolis to the peripheries for the sake of discovering and colonizing the “Other” parts of the world in one hand; on the other hand, these journeys enable the protagonist to grow physically, psychologically, spiritually and mentally. The paper also traces the physical journey that coincides with the inner journey which results in the self-discovery of the protagonist of himself as sequences of gradual growth from childhood to maturity; this trait makes the novel as bildungsroman. The protagonist commits a sin of disobedience at the beginning of his life and he has to endure all difficulties of life because of that deadly sin and with the passage of time he discovers his mistakes and repents from his wickedness and comes back to God who redeems him from his original sin. Therefore, he discovers himself after reaching the stage of wisdom, maturity and repentance. He has also been redeemed and awarded the fruitfulness of his endurance by reaching his father’s house again and reunited with his family.

Integrity and Self-Identity

1993 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 19-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart R. Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Alternative Account ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Central Interest ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cross Reference

The title of this paper proclaims its central interest—the relationship which holds between the concept of integrity and the concept of the identity of the self, or, for short, self-identity. Unreflective speech often suggests a close relationship between the two, but in the latter half of this century, notwithstanding one or two notable exceptions, they have been discussed with minimum cross-reference as if they belonged to two rather different philosophical menus which tended not to be available at the same restaurant on the same night. My intention is to argue that our account of the one carried implications for the other and that this relationship is reflexive. My argument will proceed by stating and criticizing a common account of the relationship between each of these concepts which tends to offer mutual support for the implied account of each. Thereafter an alternative account will be outlined.

scholarly journals Articulating Difference: Self, Identity and Representation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohan Dharavath ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
The Subject

The Adivasis are often presented as they exist in a timeless, historical space, untouched and unperturbed by complex changes in society, politics and culture though the reality is the other way round. The self-esteem and the identity of the Adivasis are not just distraught and distorted by the non-Adivasi writers but is a fraught with misconceptions. In such a scenario, the writings of the Adivasi writers on Adivasi become more significant with all due respect since it reflects the insiders’ perspective. The paper therefore examines the voices and concerns of the Adivasi through Adivasi writings and attempts to substantiate assertively on how and why any non-Adivasi writers could not escape from representing the Adivasi without distortion. It further explores that the non-Adivasi writer, an outsider is more than fascinated to write more of the fetish, exotic and criminalization of the Adivasi on one hand and on the other hand stereotyping them rather understanding the Adivasi life. It also focuses on and discusses the broader concerns of the Adivasi life and experience that ensure the subject happens to occur from the locational similarity.

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