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In The Private Self Arnold Modell contributes an interdisciplinaryperspective in formulating a theory of the private self. A leading thinker inAmerican psychoanalysis Modell here studies selfhood by examining variationson the theme of the self in Freud and in the work of object relationstheorists self psychologists and neuroscientists. Modell contends that theself is fundamentally paradoxical in that it is at once dependent upon socialaffirmation and autonomous in generating itself from within. We createourselves he suggests by selecting values that are endowed with privatemeanings.By thinking of the unconscious as a neurophysiological process and the self asthe subject and object of its own experience Modell is able to explain howidentity can persist in the flux of consciousness. He thus offers an excitingand original perspective for our understanding of the mind and the brain. «
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