The "Single Consciousness-and-'I'" of the Child at Different Ages
Consciousness in the Study of Human Life and Experience VI
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2386003 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Klaus G Witz (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 648-659 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800415574822 |
| OpenAlex | W1975914857 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 15 |
In elaborating their thesis that the subjective being of a person should be regarded as "a single consciousness-and-'I'" or as "a single reality of consciousness" "from childhood to old age," Witz and Goodwin based themselves only on their experience in qualitative research with adults (with the consciousness-and-"I" of participants who were adults aged 12 to 60 or so). The bulk of the present article first argues that the fundamental characteristics of the single consciousness-and-"I" in adults ("Foreshadowing the future," "Consciousness-and-'I' distilling in innumerable 'I-feelings' throughout the day," and "Taking for granted one is always the same person") exist already but take different forms at every age in childhood and that these forms merge into the conscious-and-"I" in the adult. The final portion of the article then discusses how one can in principle go about getting an idea of the consciousness-and-"I" of a child at a particular age
Consciousness · Developmental psychology · Feeling · Merge (version control · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Computer Science · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity
How Infants Know Minds
The parent–infant dyad and the construction of the subjective self
When autobiographical memory begins
Advances in early memory development research
Waheeda Remembering Her Cat Izzy
The Self," "I," and "a Single-Consciousness-and-'I
On the Root of Feeling One Is Subjectively Understanding Another
A Single "Consciousness-and-'I'" From Childhood to Old Age
Understanding Another Person and Cooley's Principle of Sympathetic Introspection
"Awakening to" an Aspect in the Other
The Participant as Ally and Essentialist Portraiture
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2019 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |