Conceiving of personality /
The quest to comprehend the essence of human nature is as old as the capacity for reflective thought. In this provocative book, Dr. Michael Robbins proposes a new approach that draws upon psychoanalysis but is shaped by awareness of the limits that the particular circumstances of historical epoch, W...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[1996]
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Table of Contents:
- I. Introduction
- 2. Can we concieve of ourselves? Three instances of theoretical conversion
- 3. A brief history of conceptions of the person
- 4. Monistic thinking and modal constructs
- 5. Constitution-bound: the neurobiological basis of personality
- 6. Ethnocentrism: culture, local knowledge, and universal truth
- 7. Psychoanalysis as an indigenous psychology
- 8. Indegenous psychologies of the east and west: psychoanalysis and buddhism
- 9. Gender, personality, and culture
- 10. Psychoanalytic monism and intracultural diversity
- 11. How models become movements: the ideological dimension
- 12. Summary of the monism-pluralism debate
- 13. Systems in transformation: a model for the dialectic between discovery and creation
- 14. Modeling the dialectic between discovery and creation
- 15. Conceiving of personality: the warp and the woof.
