UTS - Chap 5

“we regard our possessions as parts of ourselves. We are what we have and what we possess.”

There is a direct link between self-identity with what we have and possess. Our wanting to have and possess has a connection with another aspect of the self, the __________.

A Harvard Psychologist in the late nineteenth century

James wrote in his book, _____________ in 1980 that understanding the self can be examined through its different components.

understanding the self can be examined through its different components. James described these components as:

• Its constituents

• Self-feelings

• Self-seeking & Self-preservation

• Self-provocation

component of understanding the self:

self are composed of the material self, the social self, the spiritual self, and the pure ego.constituents

component of understanding the self:

The feelings and emotions, they arouse.

self are composed of the material self, the social self, the spiritual self, and the pure ego.

who came up with this?

a component of understanding the self:

The actions to which they prompt.

According to William James, primarily, Material Self is about our:

• bodies, clothes, immediate family, and home.

• bodies, clothes, immediate family, and friends.

• bodies, significant other, immediate family, and home.

• self, clothes, immediate family, and home.