03586nam 22006015 450 991015481560332120200701113213.01-137-57385-610.1057/978-1-137-57385-8(CKB)4340000000024063(DE-He213)978-1-137-57385-8(MiAaPQ)EBC4767651(EXLCZ)99434000000002406320161210d2016 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Self and its Defenses[electronic resource] From Psychodynamics to Cognitive Science /by Massimo Marraffa, Michele Di Francesco, Alfredo Paternoster1st ed. 2016.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (X, 219 p.) 1-137-57384-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction -- 2. 1. The Unconscious Mind -- 3. 2. Making the Self, I: Bodily Self-Consciousness -- 4. 3. Making the Self, II: Psychological Self-Consciousness -- 4. The Self as a Center of Causal Gravity -- 5. Epilogue. .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.Philosophy of mindCognitive psychologyPsychoanalysisSelfIdentity (Psychology)Philosophy of Mindhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E31000Cognitive Psychologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Y20060Psychoanalysishttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/H54026Self and Identityhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Y20150Philosophy of mind.Cognitive psychology.Psychoanalysis.Self.Identity (Psychology).Philosophy of Mind.Cognitive Psychology.Psychoanalysis.Self and Identity.128.2Marraffa Massimoauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut281167Di Francesco Micheleauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autPaternoster Alfredoauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autBOOK9910154815603321The Self and its Defenses2545695UNINA