PSY 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cyborg Anthropology, Amber Case, Cyborg

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2110
• Professor: Mariusz Michal Zadrag

Document Summary

Lecture 2: the concept of the self and the self-concept. Concept of the self in history and culture. Initially, chairs were reserved primarily for the nobility. Individual chairs replaced benches as seating for everyone well after the medieval period: head of the household sat in a chair and the rest sat on benches. What was the view of the self before: very family-oriented, tribe, community, everything you did tied back to your family or community, privacy of the self was non-existent. Your privacy was in the house with the family and the servants: not uncommon that the whole family slept in the same bed, no concept of independent self as we see it today. Renaissance: revival of art: personal privacy, houses with several rooms, communal existence is now disintegrated, we are extremely privileged. The self in history and culture construction of the (western) individual self.