{"product_id":"self-representation","title":"Self-Representation","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis innovative work offers a new approach to the study of self-representation, drawing on both the older study of lives tradition in personality psychology and recent work in narrative psychology. Gary S. Gregg presents a generative theory of self-representation, applying methods of symbolic analysis developed by cultural anthropologists to the texts of life-historical interviews. This model accounts for the continual shifting of identity among contradictory surface discourses about the self, as it shows how each discourse is defined as a reconfiguration of a stable cluster of deep structurally-ambigious elements. Gregg not only examines the nature of narrative, but also addresses more mainstream issues in cognitive science, such as: How is knowledge of the self and its social world represented? What are the elementary units of self-cognition? How are cognition and affect linked?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter a brief introduction, the book raises critical questions about self-representation by presenting re-analyses of two famous case studies--Freud's \u003ci\u003eRat Man\u003c\/i\u003e and Mack and Larry from \u003ci\u003eThe Authoritarian Personality\u003c\/i\u003e--and initial observations from Gregg's fieldwork in Morocco. A theoretical chapter then introduces the notion of structured ambiguity, which enables a person to shift between identities by figure or ground-like reversals of key symbols and metaphors. Three original life-narrative analyses follow, which, with increasing complexity, develop the model via analogies to basic structures of tonal music. The work concludes with a theoretical chapter that reexamines the ideas of William James, George Herbert Mead, and Erik Erikson about the self's unity and multiplicity, and then summarizes a generative model. The book presents a compelling alternative to prevailing views of self-cognition and identity, and will be a valuable resource for courses in psychology, anthropology, and sociology, as well as an important tool for researchers and professionals in these fields.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54219359617368,"sku":"9780313278624","price":82.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780313278624__67c1eb4fad3ab_d50ff100-aa72-4607-ae07-61fa6d388a92.jpg?v=1741158044","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/self-representation","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}