Gergen, K. (1991). The Saturated Self. New York: Basic Books.
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But since the rise of the modernist world-view beginning in the early twentieth century, the romantic vocabulary has been threatened. For modernists the chief characteristics of the self reside not in the domain of depth, but rather in our ability to reason - in our beliefs, opinions and concious intentions.
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Under post modern conditions, persons exist in a state of continuous construction and reconstruction; it is a world where anything goes that can be negotiated. Each reality of self gives way to reflexive questioning, irony, and ultimately the playful probing of yet another reality.
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As we absorb the view, values and visions of others, and live out the multiple plots in which we are enmeshed, we enter a post modern consciousness. It is a world in which we no longer experience a secure sense of self, and in which doubt is increasingly placed on the very assumption of a bounded identity with palpable attributes.
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'In the social jungle of human existence there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity' - Erik H Erikson, Identity, Youth, and Crisis
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The immense attention devoted today to cognitive processes reveals a further dimension of the modernist view: mans essence is rational.
Horney proposed that people can rationally conduct their own self analysis
(Reflexivity link to Giddens)
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Erik Erikson proposed that the major acheivement of normal development was a firm and fixed "sense of identity"
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Riesman Lonely Crowd (whole paragraph)
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In an important sense, as social saturation proceeds, we become pastiches, imitative assemblages of each other.
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Modern man is afflicted with a permanent identity crisis, a condition conductive to considerable nervousness. - peter berger, brigitte berger, and hansfried kellner, The Homeless Mind
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