1st Edition

Selving A Relational Theory of Self Organization

By Irene Fast Copyright 1998
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

In Selving: A Relational Theory of Self Organization , Irene Fast invokes the basic distinction between the self as "me" and the self as "I" in order to develop a contemporary theory of the self as subject. In a return to Freud's clinical finding that all psychological processes are personally motivated, she elaborates a notion of the "I-self" that is intrinsically dynamic and relational. Within... Read more
Preface 
- Toward the Notion of a Dynamic I-Self 
- Basic Structures 
- The I-Self: Our Ways of Making Meaning 
- Selving Without a Sense of I-Ness-I: Encoding Experience in Global I-Schemes 
- Selving Without a Sense of I-Ness-II: Id Experiences in Global I-Schemes 
- From Selving Without a Sense of I-Ness to First-Person Experiencing-I. 
Toward an Internal World 
- From Selving Without a Sense of I-Ness to First-Person Experiencing-II. Toward an External World 
- What Sort of a Self Is This Dynamic Self?

Biography

Irene Fast