The self is divided into two categories:
1. I-Self
2. Me-Self
- William James
Refers to the self that knows who he or she is, which is also called the thinking self. This is how we interpret the things around us.
I-Self
ü This is the empirical self, which refers to the person’s personal experiences and is further divided into subcategories.
The Me-Self
Subcategories of the Me-Self:
Material Self
Social Self
Spiritual Self
attributed to an individual’s physical attributes and material possessions, contributing to their self-image.
Material Self
(relationship with other people)
Social Self
(cannot be seen in our physical self that needs a depth understanding of our self and relationship with God)
Spiritual Self
ü According to Mead, the ____ is himself or herself doing things without the opinion of other people.
“I”
ü The ____ is the awareness of how people might be thinking about you or the expectation of people around you.
“Me”
Created the Self Theory: Real and Ideal Self
- Carl Roger
The ______- is defined in a broad way as the individual’s tendency to act in ways which actualize himself, the belief about himself, how he evaluates himself, and a mental picture of who he is.
Self-Concept
Our self-concept begins to develop in _____ throughout the lifespan—the self-concept of how someone thinks about himself.
early childhood
Rogers suggests two components of self-concept:
- Real Self
- Ideal Self
ü It consists of all the ideas, how we see ourselves, how a person feels and thinks.
Real Self
ü It is the person’s conception of what one should be or what one aspires to be, striving for the attainment of what he wants to be.
Ideal Self
- In Rogers’ theory, the closer the ideal self to the real self, the more ________ and the _____ person’s self-worth.
consistent
higher
Contrary, when the ideal self is far from the real self, the person becomes ______ and ______
unhappy and dissatisfied.
the alignment of the real self and the ideal self
Congruence
happens when there is inconsistency between the real self and the ideal self
Incongruence
o The mind is made of a multiplicity of selves and there are notions that humans have a single self.
- Andras Angyal
- For an adolescent’s understanding self is conceptualized as ______ and _______.
multiple or unified
true or false
o A pediatrician and a psychoanalyst, explains his theory about the true self and the false self.
- Dr. Donald Winnicot
He expounded the idea that the function of the false self is to _____ and _____ the true self.
hide and protect
Winnicott highlighted the importance of the mother as the _____ and the child as ______, meaning they just do whatever they want without thinking.
caregiver
spontaneous
