The Self and Its Defenses: From Psychodynamics to Cognitive Science

Introduction: Setting the Stage [pp. i-v]

1. The Unconscious Mind [pp. 1-29]

1.1 The mind and cognitive science

1.1.2 The dissociation between mind and consciousness

1.1.3 Levels of explanation

1.2 The dynamic unconscious

1.3.1 Searle against the cognitive unconscious

1.3.2. Personal and subpersonal in dialectical relationship

1.4. The dynamic unconscious in a cognitive-evolutionary framework

2. Making the Self, I: Bodily Self-Consciousness [pp. 30-54]

2.1 The disappearance of the self

2.1.1 The exclusion thesis

2.1.2 Selfless minds?

2.2 The bottom-up reconstruction of the self

2.3 The case against pre-reflective self-consciousness

2.4 The self as a process

3. Making the Self, II: Psychological Self-Consciousness [pp. 55-85]

3.1 The nature of introspection

3.1.1 Being able to say why

3.1.2 Self/other parity or inner sense?

3.1.3 Self-interpretation plus sensory access

3.2 The construction of the virtual inner space of the mind

3.2.1 Mindreading and attachment

3.2.2 The construction of introspection in the attachment environment

3.3.1 Dissociation of the Jamesian selves

3.3.2 The thread of life

4. The Self as a Center of Causal Gravity [pp. 86-104]

4.1 A Baconian approach to defense mechanisms

4.2 Construction and defence of subjective identity

4.3 Culture as a system of techniques of defense

4.4 A robust theory of the self

Epilogue [pp. 105-108]

Notes

References

Index