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.

Self-continuity across time in schizophrenia: An exploration of phenomenological and narrative continuity in the past and future

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S572-S572 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Allé ◽  
A. D’Argembeau ◽  
P. Schneider ◽  
J. Potheegadoo ◽  
R. Coutelle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Life Narratives ◽  
Therapeutic Implications ◽  
The Past ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
Core Symptom ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
Disorders Of The Self

Disorders of the self, such as the “loss of continuity” of the self in time, are a core symptom of schizophrenia, but one, which is still poorly understood. In the present study, we investigated two complementary aspects of self-continuity, namely phenomenological and narrative continuity, in 27 patients with schizophrenia, and compared them with 27 control participants. Participants were asked to identify 7 important past events and to narrate a story taken from their life that included these events. They were then asked to imagine 3 important events that might happen in their personal future and to build a narrative of their future life. The memory vividness of these important life-events and the proportion of self-event connections in the narratives were used as a measure of phenomenological and narrative continuity, respectively. Our results showed that the difficulty for patients to construct vivid representations of personally significant events was observed in both temporal directions, past and future. Patients’ ability to establish explicit connections between personal events and attributes of self in life narratives was also impaired, but only in the case of past narratives. Our results yield a fresh understanding of the cognitive mechanisms of self-disorders in schizophrenia. The clinical and therapeutic implications of these findings are discussed.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Contradiction and Freedom

Philosophy ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 63 (245) ◽  
pp. 317-330
Author(s):  
B. H. Slater
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
The Past ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Literary Figure ◽  
Intimate Link ◽  
Clear Thinking ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The Way

Jean-Paul Sartre, in describing the realization of his freedom, was often inclined to say mysterious things like ‘I am what I am not’, ‘I am not what I am’ (‘as I am already what I will be …, I am the self which I will be, in the mode of not being it’, ‘I make myself not to be the past … which I am’.) He was therefore plainly contradicting himself, but was this merely a playful literary figure (paradox), or was he really being incoherent? By the latter judgment I do not mean to reject his statements entirely (like many of his Anglo-Saxon contemporaries); for I believe there is an intimate link between contradiction and freedom, as I shall explain in this paper. But a minor thing we must first have out of the way is the suggestion that Sartre's language was just a rhetorical trope, designed merely to express some banal platitude in a bemusing way: ‘I am not yet what I will be’, ‘I am no longer what I was’ are sane and sensible, for instance, but cannot be the meant content of Sartre's sayings, since, while they would indeed describe the reform of some character, they would be appropriate only before or after some metamorphosis, not, as Sartre clearly intended, in the midst of some process of riddance and conversion, whether radical or otherwise. Yet, in the turmoil of such a change, ‘I am not what I am’ (or the everyday ‘I am not myself’) still, surely, cannot be true, and if that is the case, Sartre must be being inocherent, and therefore, obfuscating and deliberately obscure, and hence, it seems, must properly be rejected by all right and clear thinking men.

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.

Dress for Success: A Journey from Past to Present Among Tibetans

Costume ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-110
Author(s):  
Patrizia Bassini
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
The Self ◽  
Economic Success ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Statement ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

This article examines the problem of what to wear among Tibetans in Qinghai, China. Starting with recent media coverage, which reported how Tibetan traditional attire is becoming a powerful political statement, I will attempt to illustrate how the dramatic transformations in the way Tibetans dress are not a new phenomenon but an ongoing process of the past fifty years. From the analysis of people’s narratives and extended participant observation, it emerges that the choice of garments is of real concern to many Tibetan people as it communicates messages about the self and their position in the world. I contend that Tibetan men especially have strategically taken to wearing Western-style suits in an attempt to enact Han Chinese economic success.

scholarly journals Te Kooti's Slow-Cooking Earth Oven Prophecy: A Patuheuheu account and a new transformative leadership theory

Te Kaharoa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Byron Rangiwai
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Transformative Leadership ◽  
Leadership Theory ◽  
Final Word ◽  
Stepping Stone ◽  
The Past ◽  
Earth Oven ◽  
The Way

The French philosopher Michel Foucault stated: “I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me” (cited in O’Farrell, 2005, p. 9). In the same vein, I offer this book, not as a final word, but as a stepping stone for others.  He ihu hūpē ahau1 - I am inexperienced in the ways of this world, and therefore I can write only from my particular Patuheuheu perspective and positioning within this book. This work is the culmination of my interest in the past, present and future of Patuheuheu. It is based on my interpretations, which are ultimately shaped by the whakapapa2 and life experiences that form the cultural lenses and filters that determine the way in which the research for this book was conducted. 

scholarly journals Saying no (to a story): personal identity and negativity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tereza Matějčková
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
German Idealism ◽  
The Self ◽  
Birth Certificates ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Narrative Self ◽  
Phenomenological Tradition ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe concept of narrativity and narrative identity has two birth certificates: it is linked to the phenomenological tradition—beginning with Arendt’s “political phenomenology” —and to the tradition of German Idealism gradually slipping into existentialism. In this article, the author focuses on the latter tradition that helped to pave the way of the concept of narrative self. Key among the thinkers of Classical German Idealism has been Hegel, often considered the philosophical storyteller. Yet the author argues that Hegel’s concept of narrativity is not exclusively applied to the self and has hardly any role in the constitution of consciousness. This is the reason why Hegel (rather than thinkers who place the core of personal identity into narrativity) has the means to formulate a more convincing concept of the self and personal identity. The author does not deny that narrativity is seminal, both for leading a life as a human being and as a concrete person; however, originally consciousness and self-hood are born out of negativity. One enacts one’s selfhood, once one realizes that one has to interrupt narrativity, step in, refuse to live by it, or just ordinarily rephrase it consciously and by this appropriate it.

scholarly journals PEMBELAJARAN IPS SEJARAH DAN SIKAP NASIONALISME DALAM ERA GLOBALISASI

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laode Monto Bauto
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Process ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
The Past ◽  
Teaching History ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
The Way

The incidence of individualist attitudes and reduced social kepedlian and others. It all becomes an indicator of the lunturnya attitude of nationalism, especially among the younger generation successor to relay the struggle of a nation. Through teaching history students capable of developing competence to think in chronological order and having knowledge about the past that can be used to understand and explain the developmental process and change people and diversity socio-culture in order find and cultivate identity nation in the society the world. Teaching history asked students realizes the diversity life experiences in each society and the way different viewpoint against its past to understand the present and build knowledge and understanding to face the future. Thus probate Soekarno “ jas red”  must remain we amalkan. As is expression philosopher mulan kundera stating that if will destroy a nation, then destory first its history should let us think about.Keywords :Pembelajaran, sikap, nasionalisme, globalisasi

The Curse of the Smile: Ambivalence and the ‘Asian’ Woman in Australian Multiculturalism

1996 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ien Ang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Social Space ◽  
The Self ◽  
Asian Woman ◽  
Structural Level ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
Subjective Level ◽  
The Way

This article critiques Australia's official discourse of multiculturalism, with its rhetoric of ‘celebrating cultural diversity’ and tolerance, by looking at the way in which this discourse suppresses the ambivalent positioning of ‘Asians’ in Australian social space. The discourse of multiculturalism and the official, economically motivated desire for Australia to become ‘part of Asia’ has resulted in a relatively positive valuation of ‘Asia’ and ‘Asians’, an inversion from the racist exclusionism of the past. Against the self-congratulatory stance of this discourse, this article signals the operation of ambivalence at two levels: at the structural level, insofar as it points to the inherent contradictions in the idea of the ‘multicultural nation’ and its fantasy of a harmonious ‘unity-in-diversity’, and at the subjective level, in the sense that the ethos of multiculturalism doesn't erase the ambivalent relations of acceptance/rejection between majority and minority subjects. Several instances of such ambivalence pertaining to the positioning and representation of the ‘Asian’ woman are given.

scholarly journals Self-Confidence and Paranoia: An Experimental Study Using an Immersive Virtual Reality Social Situation

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Atherton ◽  
Angus Antley ◽  
Nicole Evans ◽  
Emma Cernis ◽  
Rachel Lister ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Experimental Tests ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Immersive Virtual Reality ◽  
Paranoid Ideation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Negative Thoughts

Background: Paranoia may build directly upon negative thoughts about the self. There have been few direct experimental tests of this hypothesis. Aims: The aim of the study was to test the immediate effects of manipulating self-esteem in individuals vulnerable to paranoia. Method: A two condition cross-over experimental test was conducted. The participants were 26 males reporting paranoid ideation in the past month. Each participant experienced a neutral immersive virtual reality (VR) social environment twice. Before VR participants received a low self-confidence manipulation or a high self-confidence manipulation. The order of manipulation type was randomized. Paranoia about the VR avatars was assessed. Results: The low self-confidence manipulation, relative to the high self-confidence manipulation, led to significantly more negative social comparison in virtual reality and higher levels of paranoia. Conclusions: Level of self-confidence affects the occurrence of paranoia in vulnerable individuals. The clinical implication is that interventions designed to improve self-confidence may reduce persecutory ideation.

Thinking Interactively

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Paris
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Biological Psychiatry ◽  
Neural Connections ◽  
The Past ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
The Mind

The human mind favors linear thinking, with single causes leading to single effects. Thinking interactively is much more difficult. Understanding mental disorders as due to chemical imbalances or abnormal neural connections is tempting. However, it is wrong to view the neural level as more “real” than measures of the mind. This kind of thinking pays lip service to psychosocial factors but loses sight of the important role that life events play in the etiology of mental disorders. In the past, psychotherapists were just as blindly linear in their thinking. They made broad generalizations, oversimplifying the role of life experiences, sometimes attributing all psychopathology to adverse events in childhood. In parallel with the reductionism of biological psychiatry, these models failed to consider the complexity of pathways from risk factors to outcomes. A more scientifically valid view is that mental disorders arise from complex interactions between genetic vulnerability and psychosocial adversity.

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