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Thesis--Wisconsin. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 297-301).

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The argument that I present in this thesis is that while the idea of the Self is an illusion, a myth which our brains create, it is one that is necessary for our survival. However, by understanding its neurological origins we are able to take advantage of it without being victims of egocentricity. My first chapter, Neurology of the Self, lays down the neurological foundations for our concept of the Self and goes on to argue that, while biology and neurology must remain the basis of our understanding, we need to transcend our purely scientific concepts in order to integrate them with art and spirituality. Our transcendental view, I argue, seeks to establish values that make life worth living for and are essential to our survival. I consider some possible implications, both real and imagined, of neurological impairment. The second chapter, Consciousness and the Self, considers the neurological and chemical basis for consciousness and develops the ways in which the imagined Self can be used to create a balanced life that is not highjacked by ego. In the third chapter, Human Nature and the Self, I continue to argue for a liberated view of the Self bearing in mind its neurological origin which itself is the creator of our received reality. Compassion, which Schopenhauer's philosophy argued for as the basis of morality, is shown to be facilitated by the concept of a centred Self which I apply to the subject of morality in the fourth chapter, Morality and the Self. .with the fifth chapter, Illusion and the Imagined Self. I come to the very heart of the argument to which tny considered research findings and previous chapters have lead, namely, that the illusion of the Self is neurologically created by our brains and that we do not have an unchanging Self which is other than the experiences and ideas from which our whole Being derives meaning. Nonetheless, this Self and other values we create are essential for our well being and should be cherished in themselves as being crucial for our healthy individual and collective survival. Furthermore, since we are now aware of the origin of our idea of the Self we can gain our freedom from a manipulating ego and become centred Selves able to creatively transcend and transform the limits of our neurologically given reality by being actively involved in the ongoing process of change. This is the subject of my sixth chapter, Spirituality and the Creative Self, and is endorsed in my concluding chapter which, neglecting a view which carefully avoids accepting absolutes that just might be falsified tomorrow, argues that the best values that we create today should be used as absolutes from which to derive principles for living and continuing to live which could, at least, lessen the threat to our survival.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia. / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-20T22:57:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 194972.pdf: 872896 bytes, checksum: f7fe480a5876dc5a407ca487371e2f35 (MD5) / Desenvolvemos neste trabalho de dissertação as teses fundamentais da escola norte-americana de psicanálise: a "Psicologia Psicanalítica do Ego", pautando-as com as teses fundamentais da psicanálise freudiana. São estabelecidas as diferenças teóricas que a "Psicologia Psicanalítica do Ego" guarda em a psicanálise freudiana, estabelecendo-se os pontos específicos em torno dos quais estas diferenças ocorrem.

Orientador: Roosevelt Moises Smeke Cassorla / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-03T21:43:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ubinha_PaulodeTarso_M.pdf: 9231593 bytes, checksum: b7aeeb0176cde0f2b651f7aef1c38dbb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / Resumo: Este trabalho visa construir uma definição genérica ficientemente ampla do narcisismo, que abarque todas as linhas possíveis de investigação, sem privilegiar nenhuma delas, para estabelecer um terreno conceitual comum para toda pesquisa sobre este tema. Para tanto, o autor estudou quatro versões correntes do mito grego de Narciso, assinalando os aspectos relevantes do ponto de vista psicanalítico, procedeu a uma análise do texto capital de Freud, "Sobre o Narcisismo: uma Introdução", considerando os textos precursores e posteriores de Freud e dos autores psicanalíticos que lhe sucederam no trato deste assunto e apresentou ilustração clínica, reunindo elementos para a discussão do conceito de narcisismo sob o ponto de vista teórico e prático.Fazendo este percurso, chegou à sua proposta de definição genérica do narcisismo / Abstract: The objective of this paper is to construct a sufficiently wide generic definition of narcissism, so that it embraces all possible lines of investigation on it, without privileging any of them, in order to establish a common conceptual background for all research about it. For this purpose the author had studied four current versions of the greek myth of Narcissus, distinguishing the relevant aspects in a psychoanalytical view; he had done an analysis ofthe essential Freud's paper On Narcissism: an Introduction; he had considered both the former and the latter texts of Freud and the psychoanalytic authors who had succeeded him in this subject and he had presented a clínical illustration, collecting elements for discussion about the concept of narcissism in a theoretical and practical point of view. Finally, he had presented bis generic defmition proposal / Mestrado / Ciencias Biomedicas / Mestre em Ciências Médicas