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Conceiving of personality, Michael Robbins

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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, Western culture, male gender, and modal population from which psychoanalysis was derived imposed on its modernist claims to being a universal theory. Dr. Robbins addresses these limitations from the perspective of philosophy of science, focusing on the paradigm shift from logical positivism to the postmodern emphasis on pluralism and on relativistic, contextual, evanescent knowledge. He examines the implications of this shift for neuroscience, psychoanalysis, gender studies, anthropology, and sociology. After considering whether typical personality has changed over time, he studies the cross-cultural diversity of human nature, the relationship of gender to personality, the spectrum of personality variability within Western culture, and the relationship of the contextual embeddedness of the conceiver to his or her theory. He then proposes a dialectical conception of personality based on systems and chaos theories that respects its multiple guises and circumstantial richness of content without abandoning the quest for universal principles
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 209 pages)
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
Isbn
9780300146097
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Label
Conceiving of personality
Title
Conceiving of personality
Statement of responsibility
Michael Robbins
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Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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, Western culture, male gender, and modal population from which psychoanalysis was derived imposed on its modernist claims to being a universal theory. Dr. Robbins addresses these limitations from the perspective of philosophy of science, focusing on the paradigm shift from logical positivism to the postmodern emphasis on pluralism and on relativistic, contextual, evanescent knowledge. He examines the implications of this shift for neuroscience, psychoanalysis, gender studies, anthropology, and sociology. After considering whether typical personality has changed over time, he studies the cross-cultural diversity of human nature, the relationship of gender to personality, the spectrum of personality variability within Western culture, and the relationship of the contextual embeddedness of the conceiver to his or her theory. He then proposes a dialectical conception of personality based on systems and chaos theories that respects its multiple guises and circumstantial richness of content without abandoning the quest for universal principles
Cataloging source
JSTOR
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Robbins, Michael
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Personality
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Ethnopsychology
  • Psychology and philosophy
  • PSYCHOLOGY
  • Ethnopsychology
  • Personality
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Psychology and philosophy
  • Persoonlijkheid
  • Psychoanalyse
  • Persönlichkeitspsychologie
  • Ethnopsychologie
  • Personality
  • Ethnopsychology
  • Philosophy
  • Psychoanalytic Theory
Label
Conceiving of personality, Michael Robbins
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Publication
Copyright
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-196) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
ocn861792703
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 209 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780300146097
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
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JSTOR
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctt2zxq8p
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)861792703
Label
Conceiving of personality, Michael Robbins
Publication
Copyright
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-196) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
ocn861792703
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 209 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780300146097
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Note
JSTOR
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctt2zxq8p
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)861792703

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