Understanding the Self according to William James

This describes the perspective of the self according to William James

1. PSYCHOLOGY PERSPECTIVE OF THE SELF

2. Agenda Williams James Theory of Self​ Material Self Social Self Spiritual Self Real Self vs. Ideal Self Importance of Aligment 2

3. WILLIAM JAMES THEORY OF SELF

4. WILLIAM JAMES THEORY OF SELF James broke the ‘ME” self down into three sections: The Material Self The Social Self The Spiritual Self It is divided into two main categories “ME” Self refers to the aspect of someone that come from that person’s experience or known as the “empirical self” “I” Self classified as the thinking self. 4

5. MATERIAL SELF

6. MATERIAL SELF The material self refers to tangible objects, people, or places that carry the designation my or mine. Two subclasses of the material self can be distinguished: The bodily self and the extracorporeal (beyond the body) self. Rosenberg (1979) has referred to the extracorporeal self as the extended self. The bodily component of the material self requires little explanation. A person speaks of my arms or my legs. These entities are clearly an intimate part of who we are. But our sense of self is not limited to our bodies. It includes other people (my children), pets (my dog), possessions (my car), places (my home town), and the products of our labors (my painting).

7. MATERIAL SELF It is not the physical entities themselves, however, that comprise the material self. Rather, it is our psychological ownership of them ( Scheibe , 1985). For example, a person may have a favorite chair she likes to sit in. The chair itself is not part of the self. Instead, it is the sense of appropriation represented by the phrase "my favorite chair." This is what we mean when we talk about the extended self. It includes all of the people, places, and things that we regard as "ours."

8. MATERIAL SELF C onsists of things that belong to us or that we belong to. Things like family, clothes, our body, and money are some of what makes up our material selves.

9. SOCIAL SELF

10. SOCIAL SELF Our social selves are who we are in a given social situation. For James, people change how they act depending on the social situation that they are in. James believed that people had as many social selves as they did social situations they participated in.

11. SOCIAL SELF refers to how we are regarded and recognized by others

12. SPIRITUAL SELF

13. SPIRITUAL SELF For James, the spiritual self was who we are at our core. The spiritual self is more concrete or permanent than the other two selves. The spiritual self is our subjective and most intimate self. Aspects of an individual's spiritual self include things like their personality, core values, and conscience that do not typically change throughout their lifetime. The spiritual self is our inner self or our psychological self. It is comprised of our self-perceived abilities, attitudes, emotions, interests, values, motives, opinions, traits, and wishes.

14. REAL SELF vs. ideal self

15. Real self vs. ideal self The real self is who we actually are. It is how we think, how we feel, look, and act. It can be seen by others, but because we have no way of truly knowing how others view us, the real self becomes our self-image.

16. Real self vs. ideal self The ideal self is how we want to be. It is an idealized image that we have developed over time, based on what we have learned and experienced. May include components of what our parents have taught us, what we admire in others, what our society promotes, and what we think is in our best interest.

17. Importance of alignment

18. Real self vs. ideal self If the way that I am (the real self) is aligned with the way that I want to be (the ideal self), then I will feel a sense of mental well-being or peace of mind. If the way that I am is not aligned with how I want to be, the incongruence, or lack of alignment, will result in mental distress or anxiety.

19. Real self vs. ideal self ➤ The greater the level of incongruence between the ideal self and real self, the greater the level of resulting distress.

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