"Feeling Higher Aspects in One's Life and Being Involved With Them "With One's (Whole) Self or 'I
Consciousness in the Study of Human Life and Experience VII
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2386171 |
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| Authors | Klaus G Witz (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 149-160 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800416669685 |
| OpenAlex | W2529146530 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
In the "Consciousness in the Study of Human Life and Experience" articles, longer passages in interviews where the participant sincerely tries to make a sympathetic investigator understand her are considered as showing part of the participant's current consciousness in her life (part of her "consciousness-and-'I'"). The present article argues that a critical element in such passages is that the participant is involved in trying to make herself understood "with her (whole) 'I,'" "her whole self." This represents a particular kind of (spontaneous, nonverbal, "inner") engagement of the single consciousness-and-"I." The article argues using an example that "being involved with one's self, one's 'I'" in the higher aspects that one is pursuing in one's life is a fundamental type of phenomenon/experienced reality which is sui generis, and represents in the unfolding of the person a factor in its own right
Consciousness · Epistemology · Feeling · Participant observation · Phenomenon · Psychoanalysis · Self · Self-consciousness · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Philosophy · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology
Social organization
The "Single Consciousness-and-'I'" of the Child at Different Ages
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
Consciousness in the Study of Human Life and Experience
The Participant as Ally and Essentialist Portraiture
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