Table Of ContentSelfhood, Identity and Personality Styles
Selfhood, Identity and
Personality Styles
Giampiero Arciero and Guido Bondolfi
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Contents
Introduction 1
Part One 5
1 Subjectivity and Ipseity 7
1.1 From Kant to cybernetics 9
1.2 Thesense of selfand thevariety of experience 11
1.3 Nonlinear systemsand the construction ofthe self 12
Nonlinear systems 12
Construction of the self 14
1.4 Theorganization of living systems andconstructivism of the self 16
The organization ofliving systems 17
Constructivismofthe self 18
1.5 Robert’s selffrom asystemic perspective 21
1.6 Thecontinuity ofthe sense ofself 22
1.7 Thereturn oftheworld and the question ‘Who?’ 23
Returning totheworld 24
The question‘Who?’(Die Werfrage) 25
1.8 Findingitselfin thingsand with others 27
1.9 Reflection 28
1.10 Meaning 29
1.11 Inclination 31
2 Ipseity and Language 37
2.1 Traces ofthe other 37
2.2 Shared meaning 39
2.3 Finding oneselfintheworld:suggestions fromphenomenology 41
2.4 Body-to-body 43
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2.5 The significativity of expressionsand objects 46
2.6 Referential communication 47
2.7 Oneselfin the mirror andin the refraction of language 50
2.8 Recognition ofselfinthe mirrorand inlanguage 52
2.9 Affectiveengagements 55
2.10 Actingand speaking 57
3 Personal Identity 65
3.1 Speakingof the past 67
3.2 Stories of the future 68
3.3 The sense ofselfin the age of reason 70
3.4 The modes ofidentity 71
3.5 Inclinations 75
3.6 Situatedness 78
3.7 The body, pain and others 79
4 Emotioning 87
4.1 Embodied emotionsand judgements ofthe body 87
4.2 E-moting 90
4.3 E-motingwith others 93
4.4 Emotional inclinations 95
4.5 Constructionist situatedness 97
4.6 The impact oftechnology 99
4.7 Technological tuning 101
4.8 Mediatedaffectiveengagement 102
Part Two 107
5 The Eating Disorder-prone Style ofPersonality 111
5.1 Co-perceiving the selfand other 114
5.2 Disorders 119
Anorexianervosa 119
Bulimia nervosa 121
Binge-eating disorder 124
Disorders connectedto male body shape 126
Behaviouraladdictions (compulsivebuying,
pathological gambling, kleptomania,internet addiction,
impulsive-compulsivesexualbehaviour, pyromania) 128
6 The Obsessive-Compulsive-prone Style of Personality 133
6.1 MichaelKohlhaas 134
6.2 MrProkharchin 137
6.3 Disorders 141
Thematic personality disorders 144
Obsessive-compulsivedisorders 150
