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The Self and Its Defenses: From Psychodynamics to Cognitive Science
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781349847518
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Feb 26 2021
Pages: 219
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Introduction: Setting the Stage [pp. i-v]
1. The Unconscious Mind [pp. 1-29]
1.1 The mind and cognitive science
1.1.1 The computational-representational mind1.1.2 The dissociation between mind and consciousness
1.1.3 Levels of explanation
1.2 The dynamic unconscious
1.3 The unconscious in cognitive science: A critical discussion1.3.1 Searle against the cognitive unconscious
1.3.2. Personal and subpersonal in dialectical relationship
1.4. The dynamic unconscious in a cognitive-evolutionary framework
2. Making the Self, I: Bodily Self-Consciousness [pp. 30-54]
2.1 The disappearance of the self
2.1.1 The exclusion thesis
2.1.2 Selfless minds?
2.1.3 Analytic Kantianism2.2 The bottom-up reconstruction of the self
2.3 The case against pre-reflective self-consciousness
2.4 The self as a process
3. Making the Self, II: Psychological Self-Consciousness [pp. 55-85]
3.1 The nature of introspection
3.1.1 Being able to say why
3.1.2 Self/other parity or inner sense?
3.1.3 Self-interpretation plus sensory access
3.1.4 Remnants of introspections3.2 The construction of the virtual inner space of the mind
3.2.1 Mindreading and attachment
3.2.2 The construction of introspection in the attachment environment
3.3 The emergence of a continuous self through time3.3.1 Dissociation of the Jamesian selves
3.3.2 The thread of life
4. The Self as a Center of Causal Gravity [pp. 86-104]
4.1 A Baconian approach to defense mechanisms
4.2 Construction and defence of subjective identity
4.3 Culture as a system of techniques of defense
4.4 A robust theory of the self
Epilogue [pp. 105-108]
Notes
References
Index
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