From Minimal Self to Self as Hyper-generalized Sign: Notes for an Integrated Model of Subjectivity
Sergio Salvatore, Pier Paolo Tarsi
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia June 29, 2013 DOI: 10.4453/rifp.2013.0002 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Minimal self Pre-reflective self Non-conceptual self Ecological self Extended self |
| Citations | 1 |
| Key points | Proposes that the self can be conceived as a "hyper-generalized sign" within a semiotic model of mind, integrating intersubjective and emergentist perspectives on the self. |
Abstract
This paper proposes a phenomenologically oriented theoretical perspective and it aims at showing that intersubjectivity and its dynamics of sense-making are consistent with an emergentist view of the personal Self. In particular, this paper proposes a semiotic model of mind and a correlated conception of the self as a “hyper-generalized sign”. The starting point for this analysis is based on models emerging from phenomenological, cognitive and enactive research which differentiate between pre-reflective consciousness and a non-conceptual self of the living body. The paper will try to develop a single non-hypostatised construct of a psychological and psychodynamic kind that includes and integrates all those intersubjective features of cognition addressed by phenomenological research on the various forms of the self (the minimal Self; the pre-reflective Self; the non-conceptual Self; the ecological Self; the extended Self) which are also an object of study for embodied and situated approaches in the cognitive sciences.