
Self-Literacy
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00 Introduction: The self, not a given but a problem
01 The camouflaged self
02 Authentic and inauthentic selves: duty of candour and whistleblowers
03 Ancient Greek practices of self-forming
04 Self as flaneur
05 Authenticity with muscle: the ancient Greek hero
06 Familiars
07 Renaissance self-fashioning
08 The alchemical self as outlaw: an experiment in embodied metaphor
09 Animal or plant self?: Geography matters
10 The enlightenment self as 'subject to' King and Divinity
11 The enlightened self: beyond subjection
12 Unique identifiers: fingerprints and ears
13 Talking yourself up: illeism
14 Possessed and absent selves
15 The modern ego: the all-seeing 'I'
16 The origins of 'self-help'
17 The relational self
18 Self stripped of rights
19 Self engulfed by panic
20 The self-righteous narcissist
21 Paranoia: beside oneself
22 The translational self: an attractor in a dynamic, complex system
23 The narrative construction of self
24 Personal confessional narratives constitute a confessional self
25 The self's new religion: secular and humanistic
26 Writing out the modern self: postmodern prescriptions
27 Cancelling the self: postmodern anti-narrativists
28 As mad as a hatter: neurodivergent selves
29 Self-consciousness without consciousness: tacit knowing
30 Bodies at their limits: intentional self-fashioning
31 Wired for subjectivity
32 Loneliness
33 The fashioning of family
34 Feminist selves
35 Self as laboratory rat
36 The self in pieces: the yips
37 Mods
38 Politicised junior doctors
39 The progressively absent self
40 A roof over yourself
41 From carbon to silicon
42 Differance
43 Lacanian subjectivities
44 The neurological self
45 The linguistic transactional self in surgical settings
46 Subject to power/power runs through the subject
47 Bodies that are no-bodies: the biological self
48 The universal SELF
49 Subject to the abject
50 The final straw: the self's last sip of life's juice
Appendix: The disposable self as 'worm'
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