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The Self and its Defenses - From Psychodynamics to Cognitive Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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The Self and its Defenses - From Psychodynamics to Cognitive Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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This book presents a theory of the self whose core principle is
that the consciousness of the self is a process of
self-representing that runs throughout our life. This process aims
primarily at defending the self-conscious subject against the
threat of its metaphysical inconsistence. In other words, the self
is essentially a repertoire of psychological manoeuvres whose
outcome is self-representation aimed at coping with the fundamental
fragility of the human subject. This picture of the self differs
from both the idealist and the eliminative approaches widely
represented in contemporary discussion. Against the idealist
approach, this book contends that rather than the self being
primitive and logically prior, it is the result of a process of
construction that originates in subpersonal unconscious processes.
On the other hand, it also rejects the anti-realistic, eliminative
argument that, from the non-primary, derivative nature of the self,
infers its status as an illusory by-product of real neurobiological
events, devoid of any explanatory role.
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