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Author_Jennifer Rosner
Bat Mitzvah
Birthday
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Clues
cognitive dissonance
Cup
Cupid
Disconnected
divided consciousness studies
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Gaelic
Hold
Hot
ilan
Impersonal Truth
Lap
Live
Messy Lives
Morning
narrative self-concept
North
Odd
oliver
personal identity theory
pinker
psychological fragmentation
sacks
self-complexity in psychological science
self-deception research
Sickest
Sky
Slightly
sotto
Spring
stavans
steven
Violate
voce
Wandering
wasserstein
wendy
Wendy Wasserstein
Wo
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781594512926
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Messy Self challenges the idea -- and the ideal -- of a coherent, harmonious self. Taken together, the essays illustrate how a flourishing self is inevitably divided, ambivalent, fractured, messy -- and how the self triumphs through disorder. Written in accessible language by award-winning writers and scholars, the book offers a diversity of perspectives on the complexities of the self. With chapters on creativity, love, self-understanding, self-deception, identity, responsibility, and well-being, The Messy Self gives a range of voices to the ordinary and extraordinary divisions, fragmentations, and uncertainties that mark our everyday experience.
Jennifer Rosner holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stanford University. She works in the area of moral psychology and has published numerous articles on the self in academic journals. Currently, she is writing a memoir about deafness in her family, which she traces from the 1800s to the present day.
