The Self and its Defenses: From Psychodynamics to Cognitive by Massimo Marraffa,Michele Di Francesco,Alfredo Paternoster

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By Massimo Marraffa,Michele Di Francesco,Alfredo Paternoster

This e-book offers a conception of the self whose middle precept is that the cognizance of the self is a technique of self-representing that runs all through our lifestyles. This procedure goals essentially at protecting the self-conscious topic opposed to the specter of its metaphysical inconsistence. In different phrases, the self is largely a repertoire of mental manoeuvres whose final result is self-representation aimed toward dealing with the elemental fragility of the human topic. This photograph of the self differs from either the idealist and the eliminative methods commonly represented in modern dialogue. opposed to the idealist strategy, this e-book contends that instead of the self being primitive and logically past, it's the results of a strategy of building that originates in subpersonal subconscious techniques. however, it additionally rejects the anti-realistic, eliminative argument that, from the non-primary, by-product nature of the self, infers its prestige as an illusory spinoff of genuine neurobiological occasions, with out any explanatory role.

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