EDUC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Binge Eating, Autism Spectrum
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Memories, emotions, hopes for the future, desires, feelings, thoughts, no real substance. The self is not a natural object, its a social/cultural object. We started using the world self in the 14th century, it was seen as a bad thing . however by the. 17th century, we got different ideas of self. the self became something separate from our actions and experiences, that could monitor them, and interpret us as a kind of object. We are reflexive. unique to human beings. an animal knows what its watching, but doesn"t know. Treat yourself as a subject and an object. I"m stubborn. self-as-subject: people"s awareness that they exist as an individual distinct from the objects surrounding them as well as from other individuals. comes before development as self-as- object. The first thing that an infant will notice is the presence or absence of caregiver. Take an infant and put them in front of an infant.
