From Minimal Self to Self as Hyper-generalized Sign: Notes for an Integrated Model of Subjectivity
Sergio Salvatore, Pier Paolo Tarsi
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia June 29, 2013 Peer reviewed DOI: 10.4453/rifp.2013.0002 via DOAJ
Summary
The paper presents a theoretical perspective that connects intersubjectivity and sense-making to an emergentist view of the personal Self. It introduces a semiotic model of the mind and conceptualizes the self as a 'hyper-generalized sign'. The analysis differentiates between pre-reflective consciousness and a non-conceptual self, aiming to create an integrated construct that encompasses various forms of the self identified in phenomenological research.
Study at a glance
| Key finding | The paper proposes an integrated construct of the self that includes intersubjective features of cognition from phenomenological research. |
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Abstract
This paper proposes a phenomenologically oriented theoretical perspective and it aims at showing that intersubjectivity and its dynamics of sense-making are consistent with an emergentist view of the personal Self. In particular, this paper proposes a semiotic model of mind and a correlated conception of the self as a “hyper-generalized sign”. The starting point for this analysis is based on models emerging from phenomenological, cognitive and enactive research which differentiate between pre-reflective consciousness and a non-conceptual self of the living body. The paper will try to develop a single non-hypostatised construct of a psychological and psychodynamic kind that includes and integrates all those intersubjective features of cognition addressed by phenomenological research on the various forms of the self (the minimal Self; the pre-reflective Self; the non-conceptual Self; the ecological Self; the extended Self) which are also an object of study for embodied and situated approaches in the cognitive sciences.