PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Identity Crisis

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Mark W Baldwin

Document Summary

Psyc 215: cultural construction of reality lecture (continued) Three frameworks: romantic (~1800s, core ideas. Humanity standing out from nature: personhood and relatedness. One has a character or nature, with a deep inner presence. Relationships as communion of souls : modern (enlightenment ~1700s & 1950s, core ideas. Ex: exploring the pure forms of aesthetics: personhood and relatedness. Identifying with reasoning mind ex: self-regulation to meet goals. People (including oneself) can be understood in terms of beliefs, attitudes, personality traits, life history. Relationships as reasoned choices: postmodern (recent decades, core ideas. Pastiche = sampling bits and pieces from other sources, often playfully: arts mixing romance + modern, irony: saying one thing while meaning the opposite, personhood and relatedness. Awareness of multiple selves: identity crisis can become an issue. Self can become more flexible, identified with (or playing at?) different roles: self-narratives in their social context: Our sense of identity is to some extent like a character in a story.