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How can you understand yourself? Where do your views, attitudes and values come from and why do they change? This accessible and illuminating book provides a reliable guide to these questions. The book: · Demonstrates that personal identity is formed around basic needs for security and self-esteem and the personal desires that flow from them · Shows the role of the emotions in personal life · Explores the limits of approaches that deny the existence of 'individuals' and 'personal experience' · Demonstrates how we build on everyday problems and dilemmas of life to shape our moods, attitudes and feelings. Shrewd and compelling, the book will be of interest to anyone studying Social Psychology and Sociology.
Personal Worlds and Private Feelings
Personal Worlds and Private Feelings
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- Self-identity and the engagement with deeper existential questions such as the search for authenticity.
- Feelings of ‘aliveness’ or ‘death in life’ and the problem of the dislocated self.
- The problems of meaning and existential aloneness. Confronting ‘nothingness’.
This chapter focuses on perceptions and feelings about the nature of life and the world in which we live. Of course, these issues are not completely sealed off from the more practical decisions about what to do or say in actual encounters. Personal, private feelings will always have a tendency to leak into our behaviour in one form or another. Nevertheless, in substance they are rather different phenomena from those that concern our immediate behaviour and the responses we get from ...
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