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(1990) Philosophy and psychopathology, Dordrecht, Springer.
When the self becomes alien to itself
psychopathology and the self recursive loop
Alfred Margulies
pp. 146-155
The concept of self is an elusive thing, always one step ahead of attempts to capture it and bring it down to earth. One working definition of self I have used is: "The self can be defined as that psychic structure that comes into being with the enigmatic process of self-reflection—that is, the self as simultaneously both subject and object."1 How I have struggled with such a definition! It seems not right to have a proposition that includes the same term on both parts of the equation, that is, a definition that in circular fashion uses itself to define itself. Perhaps, perplexed by enigma, I have merely compounded the problem.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-9028-2_10
Full citation:
Margulies, A. (1990)., When the self becomes alien to itself: psychopathology and the self recursive loop, in M. Spitzer & B. A. Maher (eds.), Philosophy and psychopathology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 146-155.
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