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In their article "Stimulating the Self: The Influence of Conceptual Frameworks on Reactions to Deep Brain Stimulation," Mecacci and Haselager (2014) raise an important issue and propose some solutions that are certainly innovative...
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In their article "Stimulating the Self: The Influence of Conceptual Frameworks on Reactions to Deep Brain Stimulation," Mecacci and Haselager (2014) raise an important issue and propose some solutions that are certainly innovative but somewhat problematic. In any case, they offer an original perspective to the discussion with two issues worthy of reflection, regardless of whether or not their way of addressing them seems convincing. They suggest that the adverse psychological implications behind a relevant number of postsurgical implantations of deep brain stimulation (DBS) could be partially attributed to a psychological reaction to the new situation. That is, the maladaptations could be caused by the endorsement of a certain conceptual framework related to the mind-brain relationship that influences the patient's self-interpretation. Consequently, a position different from both dualism and brain reductionism as to the mind-brain relationship might help the patient overcome such maladaptations.
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This theoretical essay aims to reflect on the process of stylization of the self among LGBTQ+ bodies as a form of resistance. Inspired by two key post-modern authors, namely Nietzsche and Foucault, and based on the category of sty...
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This theoretical essay aims to reflect on the process of stylization of the self among LGBTQ+ bodies as a form of resistance. Inspired by two key post-modern authors, namely Nietzsche and Foucault, and based on the category of stylization of the self, we analyze the normalization of bodies and also processes of resistance. The discussions are directed at thinking about LGBTQ+ bodies from a non-identity, queer resistance perspective in terms of both will to power and care of the self, in a critical way, not with a view to radical social transformation, but to particular advances, especially at the individual and group/subculture levels, which can play a significant role in redirecting social relations. Queer pleasure thus emerges as an element that arranges the resistance category in the sphere of stylization of the self by establishing micro-transformations in the workplace as a way of tackling discipline and normalization.
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This paper is an exploration of the relationship between nurturing in all its contexts - among them, the nursing couple and the therapeutic relationship - and the evolution of an individual self. The ideas are illustrated by a cas...
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This paper is an exploration of the relationship between nurturing in all its contexts - among them, the nursing couple and the therapeutic relationship - and the evolution of an individual self. The ideas are illustrated by a case vignette of a Russian patient. An attempt is made to show that when the self as an integral unity of body and soul is addressed in the analytic setting, 'nutritional dreams' emerge as expressions of the self-in-action. Certain psycholinguistic features of the Russian cultural context are described which suggest a link of meaning between development of the self and secure parenting. This linguistic association may facilitate the process of self-centering.
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The present article is limited to research studies focused on understanding the phenomenon and construction of the concept of Self.' When we look at one's experience of the Self, as a whole, it involves various components associat...
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The present article is limited to research studies focused on understanding the phenomenon and construction of the concept of Self.' When we look at one's experience of the Self, as a whole, it involves various components associated with different aspects like self-identification, self-location and the sense of the existence of oneself or the sense of Self. While exploring the Self phenomenon, many scientific studies consider only partial aspects of the experience, and hence any understanding resulting from such an evaluation makes it difficult to comment on the nature of the Self. We emphasize that while studying the Self, to understand it totally, one would need to include all the components of the Self. In this connection, we raise the following two theses: a) Ontologically, the Self is conceived as a sentient entity, the bearer of the what it is like to be type of feeling, and b) Phenomenologically, we do not have a direct apprehension of the Self, but experience various aspects of the Self through the Senses of Existence, Identification, and Location.
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This paper offers a brief resume of Winnicott's approach to psychoanalysis through a reading that emphasizes his interest in the capacity to be as a fundamental acquisition of human subjectivity. This interest continued throughout...
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This paper offers a brief resume of Winnicott's approach to psychoanalysis through a reading that emphasizes his interest in the capacity to be as a fundamental acquisition of human subjectivity. This interest continued throughout his life. The paper argues that it is closely related to his interest in analytic communication and the emphasis in his paper 'Communicating and not-communicating leading to a study of certain opposites' of the importance clinically of the patient's right not to communicate and the analyst's acceptance of it. It refers briefly to the richness of the arena opened up by his idea of the incommunicado self and its implications for both theory and practice. Three clinical vignettes are included to demonstrate Winnicott's way of working.
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The aim of this paper is to outline an integrative account of experiential and narrative dimensions of the self based on Husserl's genetic phenomenology. I argue that we should discard "strong narrativism" which holds that our exp...
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The aim of this paper is to outline an integrative account of experiential and narrative dimensions of the self based on Husserl's genetic phenomenology. I argue that we should discard "strong narrativism" which holds that our experiential life has a narrative structure and, accordingly, that experiential and narrative dimensions of the self coincide. We should also refrain from equating the experiential self with the minimal self, as the former does not simply constitute a formally individuated subject as the latter but a properly individualized one with personal characteristics and habituality. Husserl's genetic phenomenology offers both a description of the individualized self as experiential, i.e. as pre;reflective and embodied, and as narrative, i.e. as an autonomous linguistic agent. Through Husserl's concepts of sedimentation and secondary passivity, we can explain the dialectical relationship between experiential and narrative dimensions of the self.
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The increasing attention to the brain in science and the media, and people's continuing quest for a better life, have resulted in a successful self-help industry for brain enhancement. Apart from brain books, foods and games, ther...
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The increasing attention to the brain in science and the media, and people's continuing quest for a better life, have resulted in a successful self-help industry for brain enhancement. Apart from brain books, foods and games, there are several devices on the market that people can use to stimulate their brains and become happier, healthier or more successful. People can, for example, switch their brain state into relaxation or concentration with a light-and-sound machine, they can train their brainwaves to cure their Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or solve their sleeping problems with a neurofeedback device, or they can influence the firing of their neurons with electric or magnetic stimulation to overcome their depression and anxieties. Working on your self with a brain device can be seen as a contemporary form of Michel Foucault's 'technologies of the self'. Foucault described how since antiquity people had used techniques such as reading manuscripts, listening to teachers, or saying prayers to 'act on their selves' and control their own thoughts and behaviours. Different techniques, Foucault stated, are based on different precepts and constitute different selves. I follow Foucault by stating that using a brain device for self-improvement indeed constitutes a new self. Drawing on interviews with users of brain devices and observations of the practices in brain clinics, I analyse how a new self takes shape in the use of brain devices; not a monistic (neuroscientific) self, but a 'layered' self of all kinds of entities that exchange and control each other continuously.
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Engaging in self-narrative is often touted as a powerful antidote to the bad effects of illness. However, there are various examples of what may broadly be termed "aversion" to illness narrative. I group these into three kinds: av...
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Engaging in self-narrative is often touted as a powerful antidote to the bad effects of illness. However, there are various examples of what may broadly be termed "aversion" to illness narrative. I group these into three kinds: aversion to certain types of illness narrative; aversion to illness narrative as a whole; and aversion to illness narrative as an essentially therapeutic endeavor. These aversions can throw into doubt the advantages claimed for the illness narrator, including the key benefits of repair to the damage illness does to identity and life-trajectory. Underlying these alleged benefits are two key presuppositions: that it is the whole of one's life that is narratively unified, and that one's identity is inextricably bound up with narrative. By letting go of these assumptions, illness narrative advocates can respond to the challenges of narrative aversions.
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