The sense of diachronic personal identity

The sense of diachronic personal identity

In this paper, I first consider a famous objection that the standard interpretation of the Lockean account of diachronicity (i.e., one’s sense of personal identity over time) via psychological connectedness falls prey to breaks in one’s personal narrative. I argue that recent case studies show that while this critique may hold with regard to some long-term autobiographical self-knowledge (e.g.,...

Diachronic Word Sense Change Identification

Language has continuously changed over time. New senses for some words took birth while some old senses demised. For an example the word ‘instant’ which referred to the current month about a century ago but is now used to refer to a very small brief time; ‘economy’ referred to management of resources in the past and is now being referred to state of country in terms of productions. Diachronic w...

the crisis of identity in jhumpa lahiris fiction: interpreter of maladies and the namesake

شکل گیری هویت(identity) مقوله مهمی در ادبیات پراکنده مردم(diasporan literature) می باشد. آثار جومپا لاهیری(jhumpa lahiri) ، نویسنده هندی آمریکایی، در سالهای اخیر تحسین منتقدین را به خود معطوف کرده است. وی در این آثار زندگی مهاجران و تلاش آنان برای پیدا کردن جایگاهشان در یک فرهنگ بیگانه را به تصویر کشیده است. این تجربه همواره با احساساتی نظیر دلتنگی برای گذشته، بیگانگی و دوری همراه است. با این ح...

[Sense of personal identity from a psychoanalytical perspective].

Psychoanalytical perspective on the sense of personal identity displays paradoxical aspects. It increases the knowledge of the Self, particularly of the Unconscious. However, simultaneously, it stresses the gap between the knowledge which we can have of ourselves and what is thought inside us. We successively study the consequences on the sense of identity of the psychoanalytical method, struct...

The Importance of Sensing One’s Movements in the World for the Sense of Personal Identity