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self

fear

insanity

fearless

craziness

herd instinct

other

laundry

drunkenness

split personality

talking to oneself

multiple personality disorder

hangover

prank

lactose intolerance

mozzarella stick

self-control

self-discipline

drinking

eating healthy

lunch

self-sabotage

salad

exercise

laziness

working out

voodoo doll

intoxication

regret

waking up

spending money

partying

getting drunk

memory

mirror

is (wrongheadedly conceived of by descartes as) a thinking organism... it is taken as the sum-total of all the different faculties which belong to thought (i.e. Imagination, memory, will and understanding.).

He goes on to argue that, for Descartes, the self is the thinking organism. It is all the different faculties that belong to thought, such as imagination, memory, will and understanding. These must all be accessible to the subject, as summed up by Deleuze in what he defines as the fundamental formula: 'I think Myself'.

is a delusion insofar as it rests on the belief that one carries oneself forward and experiences the myriad thing. The truth of the matter is that the myriad things come forward and experience themselves.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening. Dogen

is a duration which, as the community of self, the time-gap of consciousness cannot break in twain.

This community of self is what the time-gap cannot break in twain, and is why a present thought, although not ignorant of the time-gap, can still regard itself as continuous with certain chosen portions of the past.' (James 1892 'stream of consciousness')

is a ghost in that we are all haunted by things inherited from our father and mother that 'walk' in us, and that all sorts of dead ideas and lifeless old beliefs nevertheless cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off.

Ghosts! ['] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that 'walks' in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sands of the sea. And then we are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light. Henrik Ibsen

is a relation to oneself, or put more abstractly, a relation of force to itself just as power is a relation of a force to other for forces.

Foucalut doesn't use the word subject as though he's talking about a person or a form of identity, but talks about 'subjectification' as a process, and 'Self' as a relation (a relation to oneself). And what's he talking about' About a relation of force to itself (whereas power was a relation of a force to other forces), about a 'fold' of force' (Deleuze Negotiations 92). 'Indeed, I think subjectification has little to do with any subject. It's to do, rather, with an electric or magnetic field, an individuation taking place through intensities (weak as well as strong ones), it's to do with individuated fields, not persons or identities. It's what Foucault elsewhere calls 'passion' (93). . . .

is a relation, or rather a relation's-relating itself-to-itself.

A human being is spirit. But what is spirit' Spirit is the self. But what is the self' The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation... the self is not the relation but is the relation's relating itself to itself.

is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies. B. F. Skinner

is a rhetorical figure and a performative assertion, enacted in specific situations within fields of power, history, and culture.

Selves, in this view, can be seen as rhetorical figures and performative assertions enacted in specific situations within fields of power, history, and culture' (Kondo 1990:304).

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