Sökning: "selfhood"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 15 uppsatser innehållade ordet selfhood.

1. 1. Transformative Lesbian Experiences in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple : A Look at Celie’s Development

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Författare :Bäckman Ellen; [2023]
   Nyckelord :The Color Purple; abuse; feminism; compulsory heterosexuality; lesbianism;

   Sammanfattning : The Color Purple (1982) focuses on highlighting Celie’s journey throughout life as an oppressed black woman living in the South in the United States in the early 1900s. Celie is abused mentally, physically, and sexually by her stepfather Alphonso and her husband Mr. _____. LÄS MER

3. 2. Me minus me: Self-Effacement in Autofiction by Christopher Isherwood, Rachel Cusk and J. M. Coetzee

   Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Författare :Jim Callderyd; [2022-11-24]
   Nyckelord :Autofiction; Christopher Isherwood; Goodbye to Berlin; Rachel Cusk; Outline; J. M. Coetzee; Summertime; sexuality; gender; auto biography;

   Sammanfattning : Autofiction is one of the most popular genres in contemporary Anglophone literature. Yet the self-fashioning, outwardly hybrid genre merging autobiography with fiction is also the object of frequent contestation and derision, the source of which is nearly singularly rooted in authors’ perceived self-absorption. LÄS MER

4. 3. Whose Land Are We Standing On? : Negotiating Borders, Governance, Land, and Selfhood in the North American Borderlands

   Master-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Författare :Irene de Boer; [2022]
   Nyckelord :indigenous border nations; colonialism; international borders; relational place-making; thematic analysis;

   Sammanfattning : The imposition of European borders in North America has given rise to a need to inquire into the impact of the overlay of colonial borders upon earlier ideas of geographical boundaries, and upon indigenous border nations and their connections to places and ways of being. Here, we look to delineate a tentative approach to further such inquiries into indigenous border nations who have found themselves on or near an international border by examining the relationship with ancestral lands. LÄS MER

5. 4. To know the self as a matrix of maybe : An account of the specialness of self-knowledge

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi

   Författare :Konstantin Andreev; [2020]
   Nyckelord :the self; self-knowledge; self-reflection; selfhood; choice; Sartre; Being and Nothingness; participant perspective; nonfactual prospection; matrix of maybe; alternative futures; L’être et le néant;

   Sammanfattning : The essay is an attempt to make sense of the apparently special relation between self-knowledge and agency. To achieve that goal, the essay translates the account of what it is like to be a human self offered by Sartre into the language of evolutionary psychology. LÄS MER

7. 5. Is the sense of self a threat to well-being? : The default mode network and self-related processing in depression and meditation

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

   Författare :Matthias Hafsteinsson; [2020]
   Nyckelord :Default mode network; DMN; well-being; mind-wandering; the narrative self; mindfulness; meditation; depression;

   Sammanfattning : This literature review examines the default mode network (DMN) and how its role in self related processing and narrative selfhood relates to well-being. The essay explores the DMN in three levels of activity: Firstly in normal function, where mind-wandering is positively correlated with dissatisfaction; Secondly its abnormal function in depression, characterized by excessive activity and rumination; Thirdly in its arguably improved function during mindfulness and meditation, where lower activity is associated with higher well-being, decreased mind-wandering and altered sense of self. LÄS MER