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Self psychology
(the following is a brief quote from my draft dissertation)
"Finally to complete our brief survey of the active self, it should be said what has not been said about the self, which is infinitely more than what we have said. We have mentioned that the self adapts to more perfectly express who it prefers to be in light of the opportunities at hand. It must be said that though this be true, that saying this does not express the wholeness of the self, which is more than this and more than perhaps can be expressed. Every person is a world, almost. In Mexico they have a saying "Cada cabeza es un mundo.", or "Every mind is a world", and we must not imply that simply having said that the self adjusts or moves that we have said what there is to be said about the self. We have not said what there is to say about the self, as a theory, anymore than in saying that one person moves or adjusts we have said what can be said about that person - for in both cases much more remains unknown and unsaid than the little amount that we know and can say. The rest is a mystery, and what we see is like a mere sparkle upon the ocean compared to what we do not see or know, which may only remain known to the mind of God. In fact, it may be because so much is unknown that we do move, so that at least a little more can be expressed over time than what little we see in any given moment, like a cipher that unfolds through iteration or a symphony that unfolds in notes. Vygotsky, the influential Russian psychologist of learning has provided an interesting analogy to the self as a funnel through which only a little of it's contents may pass at any moment" (read more)
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