CMNS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Erving Goffman, George Herbert Mead, Faculty Psychology

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 110
• Professor: Gary Mc Carron

Document Summary

Looking at the metaphysical - i am a self new one with your memories on mars) Copying yourself to mars (destroy your earth body and construct a. An important constituent part of our personal identity is found in the interplay of memories, imaginations, perceptions, and in the flow of our awareness of interior time. There is the inward, invisible, eternal ideal soul and an exterior imperfect and completely turnal body. The self is constituted from the soul and body put together. Sometimes desire pulls you temporarily off course and your rational self loses control. This is a constant battle between desire & spirit and the rational self. The self is a constant process moving through time and there is a series of conflicts always taking place (faculty psychology) - model of psychological process that says we have different faculties rather than a thing called the mind. The superego-spirit, desire - ego, rational self - id.