Self
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Self
The word Self with a capital "S" refers to your Spiritual Ego. The word self with a small "s" refers to your Bodily Ego.
Concept Map
Carl Rogers Terms
Client-Centered Therapy, Congruence, Fully Functioning Person, Growth Hypothesis, Ideal Self, Self, Self-Structure
Key Terms
Self > Ideal Self, Self-Structure
Syncretic Terms
Spiritual Ego > Ajayu, Angel, Atman, Augoeides, Big Self, Blazing Star, Brahman, Bright Light, Buddha Nature, CEFA, Deep Self, Divine Ego, E, Father in Heaven, Genuine Self, God Self, Great Self, Guardian Angel, Higher Genius, Higher Self, Highest Self, Holy Spirit, Immortal Spirit, Inner Healing Intelligence, Inner Radar, Inner Self, Inner-Self, Intensification of Consciousness, Intrinsic Consciousness, Kra, La, Monad, Monadic Consciousness, Monadic Intensification, Nagi, Neshamah, Ohr, Original Face, Paramatman, Real Ego, Real Self, Sakshi Chaitanya, Saug, Self, Soul, Spirit, Super Ego, Supreme Self, The Four Unthinkables, The Knower... further results
Bodily Ego > Acquired Self, Antahkarana, Apparent Ego, Awkward Self, Earthly Self, Elusive Self, Empirical Self, False Personality, Illusory Self, King of the Body, Little Self, Normal Self, Not Self, Outer Self, Personality, Self, Sensual Ego, Subtle Body, Talking Self
Related LP Terms
Non-LP Related Terms
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Notes
Psychologist Carl Rogers uses the self (also Concept of Self, Self-Structure) to refer to the "organized, consistent conceptual gestalt composed of perceptions of the characteristics of the "I" or "me" and the perceptions of the relationships of the "I" or "me" to others and to various aspects of life, together with the values attached to these perceptions....The term self or self-concept is more likely to be used when we are talking of the person's view of himself, self-structure when we are looking at this gestalt from an external frame of reference."[1]
The LP adopts a finder distinction, self with a little "s" and Self with a capital "S"
The self consists of the Bodily Ego and all aspects provided by the neurology of the brain and CNS of the Physical Unit. It includes the front lobe of the brain, the instinctual responses provided by the brain stem, the endocrine responses provided by the hypothalamus, the nerve responses of the physical unit, cognitive modifications provided by the gut biom, etc.
The Self consists of the Spiritual Ego, which is the "organized conceptual gestalt"[2] that consists of Perspective, if I (self-awareness), imagination, purpose, and will (together, Ego).
Quotes
Shining is the sun's nature; coldness, the water's; heat, the fire's; so the Self's nature is Being, Consciousness, Bliss, perpetual spotlessness.[3]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Rogers, Carl R. “A Theory of Therapy, Personality, and Interpersonal Relationships, as Developed in the Client-Centered Framework.” In Psychology: A Study of a Science. Study 1, Volume 3: Formulations of the Person and the Social Context, edited by Sigmund Koch. McGraw-Hill, 1959. p. 200.
- ↑ to use the words of Carl Rogers
- ↑ Sankaracharya, The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and Other Writings of Sankaracharya, trans. Charles Johnston, Kindle Edition (1999: Theosophical University Press, 1946), https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/crest/crest-1.htm