Cultural Psychology of Self

Ciaran Benson is Professor of Psychology at University College Dublin, Ireland.

• Part I: The Centrality of Place for Selfhood 1. Selves and the Need to Navigate Human Worlds: A Cultural Psychological Approach 2. The Brain's Work in Locating Selves 3. Placing Oneself in Personal Time: The Narrative Structure of Self 4. Moral Identity and Cultural-Historical Locations for Selves 5. Self-Creation as Self-Location 6. Pronouns Placing Selves: 'I' and its Associates Part II: Location, Dislocation and Relocation: Responsibility, Caring, Art and Changing Prospects 7. Emotions as Self's Pathfinders 8. Childhood, Responsibility and Acquiring Powers to Place Oneself as a Moral Agent 9. Pitilessness and Compassion: Caring Where Others Are 10. Suffering , Radical Dislocation and the Limits of Moral Responsibility 11. Being Moved: Art, Self and Positive Absorption 12. Points of View and None: Visual Art and the Location of Self 13. Individual and National Identity: Analogy, Symbiosis and Artistic Process 14. Psychologies of Maturity: Development or Destination? Conclusion: Navigating Human Worlds Bibliography Index

'A book rich in insight, deep in significance ... - The Cultural Psychology of Self is the work of a tutored and passionate mind.' -'Ciaran Benson offers in this book a definition of self from the standpoint of cultural psychology ... [and] situates cultural psychology within current modern psychology.' - Journal of Consciousness Studies'One of the most ambitious and impressive philosophical works to come out of Ireland in recent years.' - Irish Times