{"product_id":"self-representation-gary-s-gregg-9780313278624","title":"Self-Representation: Life Narrative Studies in Identity and Ideology","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis innovative work offers a new approach to the study of self-representation, drawing on both the older study of lives tradition in personality psychology and recent work in narrative psychology. Gary S. Gregg presents a generative theory of self-representation, applying methods of symbolic analysis developed by cultural anthropologists to the texts of life-historical interviews. This model accounts for the continual shifting of identity among contradictory surface discourses about the self, as it shows how each discourse is defined as a reconfiguration of a stable cluster of deep structurally-ambigious elements. Gregg not only examines the nature of narrative, but also addresses more mainstream issues in cognitive science, such as: How is knowledge of the self and its social world represented? What are the elementary units of self-cognition? How are cognition and affect linked? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter a brief introduction, the book raises critical questions about self-representation by presenting re-analyses of two famous case studies--Freud's \u003ci\u003eRat Man\u003c\/i\u003e and Mack and Larry from \u003ci\u003eThe Authoritarian Personality\u003c\/i\u003e--and initial observations from Gregg's fieldwork in Morocco. A theoretical chapter then introduces the notion of structured ambiguity, which enables a person to shift between identities by figure or ground-like reversals of key symbols and metaphors. Three original life-narrative analyses follow, which, with increasing complexity, develop the model via analogies to basic structures of tonal music. The work concludes with a theoretical chapter that reexamines the ideas of William James, George Herbert Mead, and Erik Erikson about the self's unity and multiplicity, and then summarizes a generative model. The book presents a compelling alternative to prevailing views of self-cognition and identity, and will be a valuable resource for courses in psychology, anthropology, and sociology, as well as an important tool for researchers and professionals in these fields.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gary S. Gregg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0313278628\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780313278624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Praeger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 5.86w x 0.90d","brand":"Gary S. Gregg","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47965130522879,"sku":"9780313278624","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b436760e-6f7b-4d7a-b838-7a26b87941d1.jpg?v=1767278601","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/self-representation-gary-s-gregg-9780313278624","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}