The psychology of self-conciousness

by Turner, Julia

• ISBN13: 9780415210478
• ISBN10: 041521047X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781136329043
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A brochure listing each title in theInternational Library of Psychologyseries is available upon request.

Table of Contents

General Facts About Self-Consciousness and the Self-Conscious Subject	1	(25)
The importance of the distinction between consciousness and self-consciousness	1	(1)
Human beings unlike the animals are self-conscious	2	(3)
Differences between the self-conscious or conceptual subject and the conscious or perceptual subject. Man is both	5	(3)
The material and organic are symbols for conceptual values; symbolism extends the conceptual subject's interest idefinitely	8	(3)
The difference between the way in which the perceptual life and the conceptual life respectively dawn	11	(3)
Inception of the self-conscious life sees the emergence of two major determinants, life-hunger and fear; anxiety results	14	(5)
Expansion of the anxiety life is first by active dramatisation of anxiety situations: to this is added later interest in anxiety situations presented in story and drama	19	(2)
In the absence of self-knowledge the balance in the anxiety life is maintained mechanically	21	(5)
Symbolism	26	(21)
The problem for the human mind	26	(3)
Discussion of the term REALITY. Reality for the perceptual subject is not the same thing as reality for the conceptual subject	29	(2)
Symbolism: what it is	31	(3)
For progress in both directions perceptual and conceptual experience are dependent on one another	34	(7)
Sexuality the first, last, and greatest symbol for the conceptual or self-conscious subject	41	(6)
The Life Force, at the Perceptual and Conceptual Levels	47	(29)
The life force at the perceptual level	47	(5)
At the conceptual level a portion of the life force becomes self-conscious; it first seeks to express itself in terms of power	52	(5)
The analogy of the Eye	57	(2)
The introspective habit of the conceptual subject	59	(4)
The analogy of the Ear	63	(2)
The conceptual life is one expressing anxiety, because in the first instance the subject is called upon to relinquish the principle of power and to accept the principle of expiation	65	(2)
Expiation: the genesis of the soul	67	(9)
The Mechanisms of Self-Consciousness are the Dream Mechanisms which have been Described	76	(14)
Prof. Freud
The word ``Mechanism'' explained	76	(2)
The mechanisms which are concerned in producing the dream: the Un-conscious and the Preconscious	78	(4)
Between the Unconscious and the Preconscious a third system, the Pseudo-unconscious, must be interpolated	82	(2)
The relation between the Unconscious and the Preconscious	84	(2)
There is danger in the wrong handling of unconscious anxiety	86	(4)
The Anxiety Life	90	(29)
Anxiety not only creates, it also dominates human life. Two aspects of anxiety: tragedy and comedy	90	(2)
The two levels of anxiety	92	(4)
Symbolism of the deeper level	96	(7)
The dream, although it recalls actual experience, is a presentation of the subject's own Anxiety Drama	103	(6)
The anxiety problem projected: referred anxiety	109	(6)
The witness of literature to the Anxiety Hypothesis	115	(4)
The Perfecting Life	119	(41)
All anxiety tends to work itself through. Where shall the subject find relief?	119	(8)
Reflection: a great mechanism of the Perfecting Life	127	(5)
What the subjective interpretation of the dream may do	132	(6)
The demons of the threshold	138	(6)
The revolt against anxiety	144	(16)
The Conceptual Subject, his Outlook and his Rights	160	(1)
A final glance at the conceptual life: its genesis, content, organisation and purpose	160	(10)
The concepts ETHICAL and FAITH	170	(6)
The Post-expiation life: the VITA NUOVA	176	(6)
The charter of the conceptual subject	182	(16)
APPENDICES
Appendix I: The Main Principles of the Anxiety Hypothesis	198	(7)
Appendix II: Illustrative Exercise (by Theresa Gosse); ``The Gates of Damascus,''	205	(4)
J.E. Flecker
GLOSSARIAL INDICES
Of terms employed in the Anxiety Hypothesis	209	(20)
General	229