Narrating the self : Freud, Dennett and complexity theory

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dc.contributor.authorDe Villiers, Tanya
dc.contributor.authorCilliers, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2011-09-06T05:38:57Z
dc.date.available2011-09-06T05:38:57Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://ajol.info/index.php/en_ZA
dc.description.abstractAdopting a materialist approach to the mind has far reaching implications for many presuppositions regarding the properties of the brain, including those that have traditionally been consigned to “the mental” aspect of human being. One such presupposition is the conception of the disembodied self. In this article we aim to account for the self as a material entity, in that it is wholly the result of the physiological functioning of the embodied brain. Furthermore, we attempt to account for the structure of the self by invoking the logic of the narrative. While our conception of narrative selfhood incorporates the work of both Freud and Dennett, we offer a critique of these two theorists and then proceed to amend their theories by means of complexity theory. We argue that the self can be characterised as a complex system, which allows us to account for the structure of the wholly material self.en_ZA
dc.description.versionPublishers' Versionen_ZA
dc.format.extent20 p.
dc.identifier.citationDe Villiers, T. & Cilliers, P. 2004. Narrating the self : Freud, Dennet and complexity theory. South African Journal of Philosophy, 23(1), 35-53. http://ajol.info/index.php/sajpem/article/view/31383en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0258-0136
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/16349
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherSouth African Journal of Philosophyen_ZA
dc.rights.holderSouth African Journal of Philosophyen_ZA
dc.subjectFreud, Sigmund, 1856-1939en
dc.subjectDennett, Daniel Clement
dc.subjectComplexity (Philosophy)en
dc.subjectSelf (Philosophy)en
dc.subjectDiscourse analysis, Narrativeen
dc.titleNarrating the self : Freud, Dennett and complexity theoryen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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