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THE SELF AND PSYCHOLOGY

Rev. Kevin Samillano


Jason James N. Ayupan
Instructor
THE THEORY OF SELF
by William James

“I” Self
- Classified as the thinking self.

“ME” Self
- Refers to the aspects of someone that come from that person's
experiences or known as the “empirical self”.
◦ James broke down the “ME" SELF into three sections as:

◦ The Material Self, The Social Self and The Spiritual Self.

a. The Material Self


- Consists of things that belong to us or that we belong to.
- Things like family, clothes, our body, and money are some of what makes up our material selves.
- The material self refers to tangible objects, people, or places that carry the designation my or mine.
◦ Two subclasses of the material self can be distinguished:
◦ The bodily self and the extracorporeal (beyond the body) self.
◦ Rosenberg (1979) has referred to the extracorporeal self as the extended self.
◦ The bodily component of the material self requires little explanation.
b. The Social Self
- Refers to how we are regarded and recognized by others.
- Our social selves are who we are in a given social situation.
- For James, people change how they act depending on the social situation that they are in.
- James believed that people had as many social selves as they did social situations they participated in.

c. The Spiritual Self

- For James, the spiritual self was who we are at our core.

- The spiritual self is more concrete or permanent than the other two selves.

- The spiritual self is our subjective and most intimate self.


- - Aspects of an individual's spiritual self includes things like their personality, core values, and conscience
that do not typically change throughout their lifetime.

- The spiritual self is our inner self or our psychological self. It is comprised of our self-perceived abilities,
attitudes, emotions, interests, values, motives, opinions, traits, and wishes.
REAL SELF VS. IDEAL SELF
Carl Rogers

◦ REAL SELF

- The real self is who we actually are, consistently in almost similar real situations/happening.

- It is how we think, how we feel, look, and act.

- It can be seen by others, but because we have no way of truly knowing how others view us, the real self becomes our self-
image.

◦ IDEAL SELF

- The ideal self is how we want to be.

- It is an idealized image that we have developed over time, based on what we have learned and experienced.

- May include components of what our parents have taught us, what we admire in others, what our society promotes,
and what we think is in our best interest.
THE SELF AS A COGNITIVE CONSTRUCTION

◦The conception and representation of the SELF as a cognitive construct, such as


knowing, seeing, thinking, and speaking, for example, and their capacities to engender
knowledge and perception, identity and consciousness, memory and narrative,
language and speech, are central to the novel's exploration of the SELF as an
epistemological and ideological product.
◦Using tools of interpretation adapted from cognitive psychology and radical constructivism, the
SELF as a cognitive derived, thus, constructed agent is central on self-formation and the
constructivist philosophy that underlies it.

◦The SELF justifies itself from the inferential points of view.

◦ In cognitive psychology, the SELF is understood as contextual, or ecological, intertwining


cognitive capacities with social experiences where the self develops through cognitive and
cultural interconnections.
References:

1. https://study.com/academy/topic/understanding-the-self.html
2. Gilbert, Charles. (2013) Foundations of Psychology. Oakville, On: Apple Academics Press Inc.
3. Ciccarelli, Saundra K & Noland White. (2013). Psychology.2nd edit. Singapore: Pearson Education
South Asia Pte. A reprint. The Self pp. 13-16, Consciousness p.136, Cognitive Psychology pp. 262-286,
Human Physical, Psychological Self pp. 386-407, Social Psychology pp. 473-499, Social Cognitive
Theory pp. 530-533.

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