Self-Made Man

The psyche or self as depicted in Jane Harrison’s Themis is a ritual self which focuses on the collective identity of a tribe. Opposite of this self, the psyche or self as depicted Homer’s The Odyssey is a self which focuses on the individual. In Themis these collective selves centered around a ritualistic society are demonstrated by the way society connected with their gods through rituals which focused on initiation of young men into the tribe, a collective emotion, and the tribe’s connection…

definition of basic needs and have focused their attention toward more psychological ideals, such as self-fulfillment and self-actualization, such as finding the purpose of their existence, perhaps even their true identity . However, the trouble roots from the sources used to come to such conclusions, often cases our peers, coworkers, authority figures, and even complete strangers. In his novel The Invisible Man, Ellison argues that one’s identity is defined by their own impression of…

pessimist about things. Have you read ‘The Rise of the Colored Empires’ by this man Goddard?... The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be — will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved... It’s up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.” (Fitzgerald 15). Back in the early 1900’s you would not find a high class “colored” man and or woman, at least in the U.S., because they were “below” the white race.…

stories. In order to discover one’s true identity, we must ask what innermost stories constitute our definition of self. The connections we make between ideas, actions, and events give intent and justification to our lives. As we construct…

penned the phrase “cogito ergo sum”, Western thought has been obsessed with the notion of the self and its significance. At the core of one’s self is his identity -- his absolute consistency with himself, which “derives its distinction from what it is not” (Bennet, Grossburg, and Morris 173). An inherent faith in the validity of this identity is vital, lest we become vulnerable to descending into an abyss of self-doubt and total nihilism. Yet with the introduction of multicultural society…

what’s on your mind and I believe that’s why SAE had such misfortune in the first place. This event connects to literature in The Appropriation of Cultures when “One night, some white boys from a fraternity yelled forward to the stage at the black man holding the acoustic guitar and began to shout “Play Dixie for us!”” There is an example about the piece from…

Ownership of objects in regards to self-identity can be quite a complicated subject. Plato believes that owning anything will harm your character, whereas Aristotle and Jean-Paul Sartre believe that it not only aids in building character, but Sartre also brings the idea of owning intangible objects as well. In their eyes what you own goes far beyond what you can see and touch. Based on what Aristotle claims, you could assume that he bases judgement off of what you own, because that’s what…

Hasson. His work describes how two people can find themselves on the same page as one another. His work draws distinct parallels with Malcolm Gladwell’s law of the few, thus making Fredrickson’s side weaker and Gladwell’s stronger. The interest the man at the airport takes in the woman telling her story about her prom night is not all that different from when people took interest in Peter Jennings and were influenced by him verbally and nonverbally. Fredrickson describes this phenomenon as,…

B. K. Ambedkar once said “Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.” April and Cheryl are a literary representation of this ideology. Their ‘searches’ are similar in the sense that they are both trying to discover their true identities, however their struggles to find these…

The social hierarchy does not provide a way for those on the bottom to escape the bottom. They remain at the lowest of the low purely because there is profit to be made from the suffering of the inferior. The psychologist John C Turner examined the consistency of one’s identity in a group and its inability to change: “It is the awareness of the existence of categories which generates the in-group response, not necessarily past hostility nor objective conflict. Identity within a group is either…