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Title: THE CURSE OF THE SELF
SELF-AWARENESS, EGOTISM, AND THE QUALITY OF HUMAN LIFE
By: Mark R. Leary
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0195325443
ISBN 13: 9780195325447
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
Pub. date: 1 January, 2007
Pages: 236
Description: Although the capacity for self-awareness is an essential aspect of human nature, self-reflection comes at a high price. Self-awareness and its accompanying egotism profoundly affect people's lives, interfering with their success, polluting their relationships with other people, and undermining their happiness. Drawing from work in psychology and other behavioural sciences, in The Curse of the Self, Mark Leary explores personal and social problems that arecreated by the human capacity for self-reflection and offers insights regarding how these problems may be minimised.
Synopsis: Despite its obvious advantages, our ability to be self-reflective comes at a high price. Few people realise how profoundly their lives are affected by self-reflection or how frequently inner chatter interferes with their success, pollutes their relationships with others, and undermines their happiness. By allowing people to ruminate about the past or imagine what might happen in the future, self-reflection conjures up a great deal of personal suffering in the form of depression, anxiety, anger, jealousy, and other negative emotions. A great deal of unhappiness, in the form of addictions, overeating, and domestic violence, is due to people's inability to exert control over their thoughts and behaviour. Is it possible to direct our self-reflection in a way that will minimise the disadvantages and maximise the advantages? Is there a way to affect the egotistical self through self-reflection? In this volume, Mark Leary explores the personal and social problems that are created by the capacity for self-reflection, and by drawing upon psychology and other behavioral sciences, offers insights into how these problems can be minimised.
Publication: US
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Returns: Returnable
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