The present paper examines the Eckhartian motives in Derrida's critique of Levinas' concept of the "Other". The focus is put on the Husserlian concept of alter ego that is at the core of the debate between Levinas and Derrida. Against Levinas, Derrida argues that alter is not an epithet that expresses a mere accidental modification of the ego, but an indicator of radical exteriority. Interestin...

This paper explores whether the highest stage in ego development is indicative of ego transcendence as I initially surmised. Overall, I will review some of the similarities and differences between rational awareness of the limits of representational thought and genuine post-symbolic knowing. I will present the research territory with a linear and a non-liner model of human development. Both mod...

OBJECTIVE An effective interpersonal communication is an essential nursing skill required to help provide quality health care and meet the treatment objectives. The aim of this study was to investigate the communication between the psychiatric nurses and the patients in terms of Transactional Analysis Theory ego states. METHODS The quantitative and qualitative research methods were used. The ...

A naturalistic study examined the effects of self-esteem and threats to the self on interpersonal appraisals. Self-esteem scores, ego threat (operationalized as a substantial decrease in self-esteem across an average of 9 months), and their interaction were used to predict likability and personality perceptions of college men and women. The results revealed a curvilinear function explaining lik...

Restrained and unrestrained subjects were subjected to one of three distress manipulations prior to an ad lib taste task. The physical fear threat (anticipated electric shock) significantly decreased unrestrained subjects' eating and slightly increased restrained subjects' eating. Both ego threats (failure at an easy task or anticipating having to give a speech in front of an evaluative audienc...

Literary psychology gives an important role to the analysis of psychological development characterization in literary works. In psychology, conflict is upheaval among id, ego, and superego. This study aims describe protagonist’s personality, focused on superego novel Dilan Dia Adalah Dilanku Tahun 1990 by Pidi Baiq's. Personality characteristic patterns thoughts, feelings, behaviors that make a...

The purpose of the study is to assess the hypothesis that achievement goal orientations will predict sportpersonship attitudes among young athletes, namely that task orientation will predict socially positive attitudes and ego orientation will predict socially negative attitudes. For hundred and eighty two athletes, aged 13 to 16 years completed the Portuguese versions of the Task and Ego Orien...

BACKGROUND Subjects experiencing ego disturbances can be classified as a distinct subgroup of schizophrenia patients. These symptoms imply a disturbance in the ego-world boundary, which in turn implies aberrations in the perception, processing and understanding of social information. This paper provides a comparison of a group of schizophrenia patients and a group of healthy controls on a range...

OBJECTIVES In a recent pilot RCT, looking at the efficacy of body oriented psychological therapy (BPT) in patients with chronic schizophrenia, a marked improvement in negative symptoms was found in the treatment group. To date, there have been no studies to evaluate the therapeutic processes, correlates and predictors of change in-patients receiving BPT. The aims of this study are to address th...

0140-3664/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2012.08.003 q This work was partially funded by the European AWARENESS RECOGNITION (257756), FIRE-SCAMP (288021) Projects. The data were collected as part of EPSRC. R.I.M. Dunbar’s research is also funded by th Research project. ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +39 0503153269. E-mail addresses: [email protected]...