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Self-Alteration - How People Change Themselves Across Cultures
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Self-Alteration - How People Change Themselves Across Cultures
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Many of us feel a pressing desire to be different—to be other
than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our
shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are
and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter
ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transform the person
we are in those relationships. Not only a philosophical
question about how other people change, self-alteration is also a
practical care—can I change, and
how? Self-Alteration: How People Change Themselves across
Cultures explores and analyzes these apparently universal
hopes and their related existential dilemmas. The essays here come
at the subject of the self and its becoming through case studies of
modes of transformation of the self. They do this with social
processes and projects that reveal how the self acquires a
non-trivial new meaning in and through its very process of
alteration. By focusing on ways we are allowed to change ourselves,
including through religious and spiritual traditions and
innovations, embodied participation in therapeutic programs like
psychoanalysis and gendered care services, and political activism
or relationships with animals, the authors in this volume create a
model for cross-cultural or global analysis of social-self change
that leads to fresh ways of addressing the 'self' itself.Â
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