Sentence examples for the unified self from inspiring English sources
A certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, she is passionate about bringing experience of the unified self back into the classroom and workplace.
The possibility of deception is implicit; Sherry Terkle, a clinical psychologist and sociology professor at M.I.T. who has written extensively about cyberrelationships, maintains that the very nature of Web interaction involves a kind of fragmentation of what we have traditionally called "identity" -- a breakdown of the unified self.
For the men and women of "Joe Turner" the unified self is most often found in companionship with another.
This, however, is just the first crack at the myth of the enduring, unified self.
Both Christianity and Islam harshly challenge the self with an insistence on submission, sacrifice, and kenosis — an emptying out of the self, an exchange of the wrong kind of fullness for the right kind of humility — and Buddhism seeks to undermine the very idea of the sovereign, unified self.
Yet the distinction reveals the original unity, for the self is other as objectified and of course is divided from the originally unified self.
Examining implications of neurological syndromes for the concept of a unified self is an example of the latter.
He bemoans the lack of a unified self in modern literature while exploring the consequences of its absence.
The public threesome must merge into a privately unified self to rewrite the book once more.
But with Derrida, we know now, the foundation is not a unified self but a divisible limit between myself and myself as an other (auto-affection as hetero-affection: "origin-heterogeneous"). Derrida has provided many definitions of deconstruction.
Even that gasbag Polonius might flip his crypt upon hearing Marche's flip, cop-out conclusion that our culture -- with its avatars, anonymous dating services and chat lines -- renders the search for a single, unified self old-fashioned: "There's no point in trying to find yourself anymore; you'll only find somebody else.
