Research Catalog

Title

The subjective self : a portrait inside logical space / Harwood Fisher.

Author

Fisher, Harwood.

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2001.

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Details

Description

xvi, 485 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• Harwood Fisher's purpose in this work is to depict the subjective self in its true complex duality. With references to technical psychological publications, classical philosophy and science, literary texts and art, he seeks to challenge and expand how we "see" and represent ourselves.
• "For all their strides in understanding how we create and think about cultures, psychologists, linguists, and logicians have had difficulty explaining how we conceive our selves - how the self can, in fact, be both the object and the subjective originator of its surroundings. Harwood Fisher's purpose in this far-reaching, interdisciplinary book is to depict the subjective self in its true complex duality." "In The Subjective Self, Fisher argues that the key to depicting both aspects of the self simultaneously and thus modeling it more holistically than before is to visualize the self in a logical space. From an origin point inside this space, the self tries out metaphors and launches categories to logically order what it wants, sees, and encounters. This is a creative cognitive process, "metaphoric framing," by which the self invents new forms and depicts new organizations of its experiences, impressions, and information. It is also a generative linguistic process, "bracketing," by which the self can step outside its own expressed thoughts, gain new levels of awareness, reposition itself as an agent responsible for its ideas and statements, and, in short, empower its own identity. The framing sets in motion versatile mental categories - forms that are projected into mental space, where they become objectified. The bracketing sets in motion the logical bounds of the "I," stabilizing the individual's identity and giving thrust to the subjective self's dynamic causal role. In elaborating this theory, Fisher extends the ideas of Kurt Lewin, Jean Piaget, and C. S. Peirce, among others. By drawing on each of these thinkers, he is able to bring their common themes of perspective and construction together in his portrait of the self as a creative iconic space."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Self psychology
• Self Psychology
• Self psychology
• Selbst-Psychologie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-470) and index.

Contents

Grouping 1. Songs, Sketches, Self, and Space -- Introduction: Visualizing the 'I' as Origin and Product in a Logical Space. 1. The Logical Space of the 'I' as an Observed Mind or an Original Self -- Grouping 2. The Modern Mind as Person without Self. 2. Out of the Traces of Physical Space and into the Subjective Self. 3. Space and Self -- Grouping 3. Building the Self's Escape Routes from Context. 4. Outside Context and Situational Time and Space -- Grouping 4. I to Robot to Sentience and Agency. 5. An Objective Self in Search of Psychological Causation. 6. From Sentience to Self. 7. Agency and Partition -- Grouping 5. Poetics of Self. 8. Self as Origin. 9. The Categories and Perspectives of the Self. 10. Opposition, Metaphor, and the Category of the 'I' -- Grouping 6. Self as Dynamic Space. 11. Metaphor, Movement, and Forms. 12. The Self's Forms and Possibilities in a Limited Space. 13. The 'I' Who Negates the Impossible Self. 14. Set as Self-Portrait of Power, Space, and Limit. App. A. Spiraling into Epistemics, Ontological Structures, and Domains -- App. B. Self, Values, and the Ordering of Categorization and Schematization -- App. C. The Monad's Constraints on Noticing Features.

ISBN

• 0803220103
• 9780803220102

LCCN

2001027708

OCLC

• ocm46884161
• 46884161
• SCSB-1243373

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library