Concept Of Self Research Articles

Migrant pupils as motivated agents: a qualitative longitudinal multiple-case study of Russian-speaking pupils’ future ideal selves in English primary schools

ABSTRACT The paper discusses the findings regarding future possible selves based on research with Russian-speaking migrant pupils in English state-funded primary schools at Key Stage 2 (7–11 years old). Its aim is to explain the nature and characteristics of ideal selves of primary-level migrant children. The methodology comprises a qualitative longitudinal multiple-case study with five embedded cases. Evidence derives from 63 interviews and seven months of participant observations. Drawing on seminal work in language learning motivation research, the study uses an integrated drawing-based elicitation technique. The findings challenge earlier claims that middle-childhood level children do not have a clear future possible self, showing how pupils express diverse, at times pragmatic and practical but remarkably profound, ideal selves in their L2 (second language) schools. The study expands on the concept of the ideal self and calls into question any definitive conclusions in the field of primary level children’s ideal selves and learning motivation.

Selecting the appropriate size of the graph for self-diagnostic model with graph density

Self - diagnosis is the concept of self - diagnosing disease from symptoms . We have the idea to create self - diagnostic models from diagnostic data . The data to be analyzed were from a medium - sized hospital in Thailand . The model is divided by structured data and unstructured data . The first step is to process structured data with c luster algorithms . The second step is to evaluate the unstructured data to group symptoms into a bipartite graph . After the graph was created, the model was divided into 10 levels, according to the level of similarity . This research aims to apply the concept of density graph, the Kappas and multiple line graph to selecting the appropriate diagnosis model . The results of all three experiments showed that the appropriate model was at a level of similarity at 40 %. We have the idea to create self - diagnostic models from diagnostic data . The data to be analyzed were from a medium - sized hospital in Thailand . The model is divided by structured data and unstructured data . The first step is to process structured data with c luster algorithms . The second step is to evaluate the unstructured data to group symptoms into a bipartite graph . After the graph was created, the model was divided into 10 levels, according to the level of similarity . This research aims to apply the concept of density graph, the Kappas and multiple line graph to selecting the appropriate diagnosis model . The results of all three experiments showed that the appropriate model was at a level of similarity at 40

The Self and alien self in psyche and soma.

This paper compares presentations of disorders of the sense of body ownership and agency from psychoanalytic and neurological perspectives to demonstrate similarities in symptomatology proposing these similarities arise from adjustments in Friston’s generative model of self‐organization and selfhood. The implications for the analytic model of the Self, for clinical practice and for neuroscience research are considered. Patients with narcissistic disorders use projective defences resulting in a disordered sense of what belongs to whom. This applies to mind and body of self and other and is central to understanding transference and countertransference. Clinical observations of this disordered sense of ownership and agency mirror findings in neurological disorders. This paper proposes that in both neurological and psychological disorders Friston’s ‘internal generative model’ of selfhood is adjusted. Further to this whilst this adjustment may be either neurogenic or psychogenic, the final neural mechanism and symptomatic outcome are similar. On the basis of these observations the paper compares the concept of the Self from Jungian and psychoanalytic perspectives. Finally, the implications for the concept of the death instinct and Britton’s concept of Xenophobia are explored along with the implications of these observations for clinical practice.

A Mental-Physical-Self Topology: The Answer Gleaned From Modeling the Mind-Body Problem

Abstract The mind-body problem is intuitively familiar, as mental and physical entities mysteriously interact. However, difficulties arise when intertwining concepts of the self with mental and physical traits. To avoid confusion, I propose instead focusing on three categories, with the mental matching the mind and physical the body with respect to raw inputs and outputs. The third category, the self, will experience and measure the others. With this new classification, we can see difficulties clearly, specifically five questions covering interaction and correlation. We break down the problem using both existing theories and a hypercube topology representing the solution. We show any satisfactory theory must explain both spatial interaction and content correlation, and that we cannot escape our topology, whatever our preferred fundamental substance and mind-body movement permutation. We conclude by looking outside the hypercube, noting how solutions such as existential monism, priority monism, and will-based cosmic-idealism avoid the dangers involved.

On the material supports of subjectivity: Mead, the self, and the new mastery of nature

The pragmatism of George Herbert Mead has been fundamental to the sociological understanding of the self. However, the complexity of his work is largely unrecognized in the discipline. This mainly affects the way in which Mead intertwined discursivity with the materiality of experience in his conception of human subjectivity. Through a metatheoretical analysis, the present article proposes a straightforward approximation between Mead’s theories of the self and the act to contemplate the incidence of processes encompassed by the latter upon the former. Based on this movement, and after a dialogue with Francis Chateauraynaud’s pragmatic sociology, the article suggests a new Meadian-inspired sociological alternative to the concept of self, attentive to its material dimension and centered on the concepts of outer and inner grasps. The current discussion about the ontological politics in the context of a new mastery of nature allows for an empirical exercise of the argument.

Rhetoric and Hermeneutics: Approaches to Text, Tradition and Social Construction in Biblical and Second Temple Literature by Carol A. Newsom

Reviewed by: Rhetoric and Hermeneutics: Approaches to Text, Tradition and Social Construction in Biblical and Second Temple Literature by Carol A. Newsom Davida Charney Carol A. Newsom. Rhetoric and Hermeneutics: Approaches to Text, Tradition and Social Construction in Biblical and Second Temple Literature. Forschungen zum Alten Testament 130. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. 382 pp. ISBN 978-3-16-157723-9. In Rhetoric and Hermeneutics, Carol A. Newsom has collected eighteen of her essays that appeared between 1989 and 2016 and one previously unpublished essay. Unlike many volumes of this sort, the whole greatly exceeds the sum of its parts. Apart from its usefulness as a survey to scholars and students, the book advances Newsom’s scholarly agenda. Newsom works with texts circulating in and around Jerusalem during the late Second Temple period. This was a time of intellectual ferment: proto-gnostic sects proliferated; established religious practices were being challenged, defended, and modified. Newsom argues persuasively that these groups were led by sophisticated readers and rhetors. The leaders grasped that the Hebrew Bible, still undergoing canonization, is polyphonic and intertextual. Further, the texts that they created deployed polyphony, enargeia, and other rhetorical techniques to shape communal identity, attract adherents, and help individuals cope with the precarity of their status. These arguments are advanced in each of the book’s four topical sections. First are six essays that explain and apply Newsom’s methods of rhetorical criticism. Second are four essays illustrating how the Qumran community—responsible for the Dead Sea Scrolls—shaped communal and individual identity. Third are three essays that lay out an ethno-psychological model for mapping conceptions of self and agency across cultures. The essays apply the model to the Hebrew Bible and a variety of Second Temple texts. Last are six reception studies that examine how narratives of the period are taken up and transformed both in antiquity and in modern times. Newsom, a chaired emerita professor of theology at Emory University, has published on so many aspects of Second Temple literature over her career that she has plenty of essays on method, theory, and application to choose from. As a result, even without additional commentary, the sections build coherent arguments. Each section opens with introductory issues of [End Page 322] theory, method, and scope and develops with close textual analysis and suggestive implications. The first section on methods reveals what Newsom means by rhetorical criticism and what theorists she relies on most. Like many biblical scholars, her immediate rhetorical touchstone is George Kennedy. But he does not inspire her to read widely in the Greco-Roman tradition. She is not concerned to trace possible cross-influences during the Hellenistic period. Instead Newsom turns to Bakhtin and Burke and the more literary strand of twentieth-century rhetorical criticism. For Newsom, rhetorical strategies in scripture reflect the identities and ontologies of their compositors and shape those of readers and writers to come. Accordingly, this section accomplishes two tasks for Newsom. First, the section launches Newsom’s larger claims that Second Temple communities deployed rhetorical strategies to shape individual and communal identities with case studies of Job (chapter 2), Proverbs 1—9 (chapter 3), Jewish apocalyptic texts (chapter 5), and texts from Qumran (chapter 6). Second, for biblicists new to rhetorical approaches, it introduces concepts and methods of rhetorical criticism, including Bakhtinian polyphony and dialogism (chapters 1 and 3), genre studies (chapters 2 and 4), and a variety of basic rhetorical concepts (chapters 5 and 6) such as epideictics, arrangement, enargeia, and kairos, though she doesn’t always employ these terms. While displaying nuanced rhetorical sensibilities, Newsom would clearly benefit from additional reading in rhetorical scholarship, particularly Carolyn Miller’s classic “Genre as Social Action”1 and William FitzGerald’s Spiritual Modalities for its use of Burke’s religious terministic screen to draw Burkean implications for prayer and religious practice.2 In Section Two, Newsom argues that the Qumran community—a break-away Jewish sect that deliberately positioned itself against the practices in the Second Temple—was “intentional and explicit in the formation of the subjectivity of its members” (159). First, she argues that the Dead Sea Scrolls served as a library for the community (chapter 7), based...

Hardy, Conrad and the Senses by Hugh Epstein

Reviewed by: Hardy, Conrad and the Senses by Hugh Epstein Yael Levin Hugh Epstein, Hardy, Conrad and the Senses. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. 312 pp. Hugh Epstein’s Hardy, Conrad and the Senses brings together an impressive array of known and lesser-known Victorian scientists, philosophers, and psychologists to stage a defamiliarizing return to Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad. Testing assumptions of historical periodization that have traditionally separated critical approaches to their work, the book shows that the labels Modernism and Victorian have muffled significant connections between the two authors’ representation of sensory impressions. Epstein uses this new focus to reframe the comparative analysis beyond the critical tendency to read the two authors [End Page 374] together through their shared pessimistic vision of a human existence bereft of providence. A book of criticism can offer no greater reward than allowing us to see works we know and love in a new light. Reading these novels alongside a historically informed conceptualization of the senses, Hardy, Conrad and the Senses does precisely this. The book proceeds as an interrogation of the work of the senses, a preoccupation that Victorian art shared with the physical sciences. Epstein asks that we view what has been deemed a uniquely modernist preoccupation through Victorian discourse and ideas. This is a theoretically simple yet original move. Distinguishing between the literary impressionism associated with modernism and the work of the authors in question, Epstein shows that the focus here is not on the consciousness of the focalizer. Unlike Henry James, Walter Pater, and Virginia Woolf, Hardy and Conrad look to the “vibrations in the ether,” “the relations between things” that we associate with atmosphere. Conrad’s sensationism, he writes, “conceives of receptiveness and understanding as a continual process of exchange rather than as a raid whose haul is secreted within imprisoning walls; and the action of each novel is to disallow their desire to remain onlookers in an unassailed subjectivity” (42). The drama unfolds as a tension between the “vivifying receptiveness of the senses” that threaten “to absorb one into the present moment” and the need to “maintain the self-possession which enables one to negotiate the world” (19). It shuttles from mind to mood, from interiority to exteriority, a “physical involvement in a scenic moment that is also active in producing consciousness” (49). This is a recording of the present that contains consciousness rather than being contained by it. Epstein terms this literary method scenic realism. It is the particular form which marks the contribution of Hardy and Conrad to the swelling of novelistic description in the age of the observation of phenomena. It asks for a responsiveness to atmospheres and vibrations, a bodily cosmic awareness, such that the components of a scene as a whole, including human consciousness, infuse the rendering of moments as they pass. The written scene that results thus belongs neither entirely to a personal inner conception, nor entirely to a visible external social or physical reality, but to the moment in which those two coalesce to realise themselves as an event. (70) Such literary exploration proves significant against the backdrop of a conceptualization of subjectivity that is seen as inherently passive. American historian and diplomat Henry Adams (1903) describes the subject as “a conscious ball of vibrating motions, traversed in every direction by infinite lines of rotations or vibration” (qtd. in Epstein 50). It is precisely the anxiety owing to this passivity that generates the need to re-establish one’s sense of identity and individuality. This is an important qualification to a conceptualization of a passive subjectivity, as current insights on the same speak to the way one becomes with the world [End Page 375] rather than as a separate entity. Epstein compares the two conceptualizations to suggest that though contemporary ideas might recall the scientific and literary Victorian experiments, they cannot be squared with Victorian thought. The immanent conception of self as it is viewed today is often associated with moral development rather than with a threat to our place in the world. Though he highlights this important distinction, Epstein also persuasively shows how Hardy and Conrad anticipate this new way of thinking. ________ While the title suggests an...

The Urgency of Self-Concept Characteristics in Building High School Students' Learning Motivation

Self-concept is something that must be owned by everyone. The concept of self is not carried from birth, but develops over time and is influenced by the environment. The development of self-concept at every level or age is different, especially in elementary and middle school. The world of education also plays an active role in the development of self-concept, but self-concept also affects education. The development of motivation to learn in a student is related to self-concept, so the characteristics of the self-concept need to be developed according to the age of the student. Moreover, high school students who are classified as adolescents, with characters who want to be recognized and try to find their identity. Self-concept will play a big role in the transitional period between childhood and adulthood. This study used a qualitative descriptive method using research instruments in the form of observation, literature and interviews.

Construction of self as a principal: Meanings gleaned from narratives of novice school principals

It is assumed that individuals’ cognitions of who they are in a particular social structure influence their behaviour in that space. Likewise, school principals’ cognition of who they are in schools as social structures influences how they behave as leaders. In this article, we use the role identity theory as a framework to analyse novice principals’ narratives of lived experiences to understand how they construct themselves as principals in schools and how these constructions influence their execution of leadership. Positioned within the interpretivist paradigm, we adopted the narrative inquiry methodology to engage with the lived experiences of 3 purposively selected novice principals from the Pinetown district in KwaZulu-Natal. The narrative interview was employed to generate field texts, which were subsequently analysed using 2 methods: narrative analysis and analysis of narratives. From our analysis of field texts, 4 themes explaining how the participating novice principals construct themselves as school principals were identified; these themes are: a leader as a learner, re-establishing oneself as a leader, spanning boundaries, and leading to inspire. From these themes, we conclude that a principal’s conception of self is dynamic and is a blend of multiple meanings generated prior to becoming a principal and meanings generated during the principalship tenure.

The Power of Relics: The Curation of Human Bone in British Bronze Age Burials

In this article, the authors examine radiocarbon, histo-taphonomic, and contextual evidence for the deliberate curation, manipulation, and redeposition of human bone in British Bronze Age mortuary contexts. New radiocarbon dates and histological analyses are combined with existing data to explore the processes and practices that resulted in the incorporation of ‘relic’ fragments of bone in later graves, including evidence for the deliberate re-opening of previous burials and for funerary treatments such as excarnation and mummification. In some cases, fragments of human bone were curated outside the mortuary context. The authors consider what the treatment of human remains reveals about mortuary complexity in the Bronze Age, about relations between the living and the dead, and about attitudes to the body and concepts of the self.

Writing telepathy back into marketing theory

Adopting a commitment to the principle of heterogeneity, combined with a concern for subjugated and disqualified knowledge, we unravel the debates around telepathy and telementation in marketing theory and practice. We explicate the conditions of possibility for these deliberations, focusing on the Society for Psychical Research (SPR). A close reading of the scholarly outputs published by members of the SPR helps us unpack the theoretical assumptions underwriting telepathy via the concept of the subliminal self. This material forms the foundations for William Walker Atkinson’s ‘practical occultism’. We review Atkinson’s work, making the case that telepathy was central to exerting personal influence. Our account thus diverges markedly from extant histories of influence. Attention is then turned to the jettisoning of telepathic linkages. Changes in discourse reflect ‘epistemological deflation’ in combination with ‘counter-reversal’. Nonetheless, telepathic and telementative assumptions remain central to our understanding of sales and marketing communications. The same can be said of consumer research. Telepathy may also impact our future in a novel, ‘synthetic’ form.

Early-Career Teachers Living on School Landscapes Shaped by Equity Policies and Practices: Helena’s and Kristin’s Stories

Before moving beyond the beginning stages of becoming a teacher, one of every two teachers leaves the profession. Hence, for several decades, the recruitment, development, and retention of teachers has been a pernicious problem facing districts, schools, administrators, and school personnel. A productive line of narrative inquiry research has focused on teacher education and development. Additionally, narrative inquiries have focused on teacher retention and attrition. For example, several researchers have narratively inquired into the processes of transitioning out of the profession. In the present investigation, we asked an overarching question, what do beginning teachers need in order to tell stories of staying? And, relatedly, in schools working toward addressing questions of equity, what are the experiences of early-career teachers? And, what can be done to develop and sustain them in their professional commitments? Two novice teachers, Helena and Kristin, both of whom took initial positions in the same district, which had a commitment to promoting equity for children, were interviewed to gather perspectives on their early-career experiences. Both participants shared tension-filled stories from their beginning years as a teacher that created a sense of disequilibrium connected to their developing sense of self. The data analysis pointed to the value that the concept of the best-loved self may have in helping teachers construct their sense of identity. As in the case of Helena and Kristin, this sense of the best-loved self may develop early and can shift over time. For teacher educators, this aspect provides an opening for exploring philosophical commitments within preparations programs with teacher candidates. For teachers and administrators in schools who are intaking beginning teachers, understanding these nascent facets of best-loved teacher self may provide a window into these novice teachers’ motivations. And, these practices may prompt the reconnection to philosophical commitments and aspirations in the day-to-day tug at the fabric of teacher identity.

Reconciling essential and socially constructed selves: Han Chinese travelling to Tibet and the making of assemblage self

In post‐reform China, Han Chinese urbanities traveling to Tibet have contributed to a new literary genre that documents tourist mobility as a means of self‐finding and self‐exploration. The sample of data in this study consists of 28 book‐length travel writings by Han travellers, and the primary research question addresses the relationships between tourism mobility and self‐making, a widely debated issue in cultural and tourism geographies. Engaging with the conceptual tension between an essential self and a socially constructed self, this study argues that while Han writers' travels to Tibet are germane to the hunt for an essential self as a hidden treasure to be redeemed, the self is by no means merely introspective, but intrinsically relational and constituted by social, embodied and materially mediated practices. For the purpose of reconciling and synthesizing the two theoretical positions, this study proposes an alternative concept known as the ‘assemblage self’, which tries to capture how the more‐than‐human and more‐than‐representational dimensions of mobilities can speak back powerfully to the phenomenology of the self. This concept is relational and performative in the sense that it is constituted by networks of discourses, practices, and materialities. We develop this concept by engaging with the recent literature on more‐than‐representational mobility as a conceptual nexus connecting the concepts of the essential self and the socially constructed self.

A Psychoanalytic Foundation for Modern Ethics

It is argued that the contemporary psychoanalytic concept of the self provides a foundation for a modern ethic. The self is founded on the empathic recognition by the other who is seen as a subject in her own right. Therefore, the authentic self that realizes its potential is inherently empathic. But those who do not grow up in an empathic environment do not develop the capacity for empathy toward others or themselves and are likely to commit unethical acts. It is argued that the causation is also reversed. Those who commit unethical acts inflict damage upon the self, just as damaged selves are likely to become unethical. The need to disavow the ethical transgression leads to splitting and a weakened self. Without the experience of being empathized with by an other seen as a subject, the subjectivity of the self is arrested and becomes objectified. So, the foundation of ethics for the Western World may be found in the very sense of self. This may be called an ethic of inclination, as opposed to an ethic of imposition. The self who is free to pursue its authentic desires and goals will be ethical in pursuit of its destiny. In this ethic, the other’s subjectivity is recognized and appreciated for what it is even if the other is an opponent or enemy. The source of ethical behavior is self-realization.

AHSS applications in Industry 4.0: Determination of optimum processing parameters during coiling process through unsupervised machine learning approach

In this work, actual production data from a rolling mill has been analyzed through the concept of Self Organizing Maps (SOM) for understanding various correlations and patterns in the production data set. SOM is an unsupervised machine learning approach, thus all the process parameters and desired properties can be analyzed simultaneously. Yield Strength (YS), Ultimate tensile strength (UTS) and elongation percent properties have been chosen as the metrics on the basis of which the coil can be utilized for a specific application. This production data contains many missing parameters. Additionally, parameters like different carbon equivalents (CE) and grain size of ferrite GS are dependent of other input parameters (composition of the coils, processing temperature, etc). Therefore, it is important to understand correlations between compositions, processing parameters, structure (GS), and macroscopic properties. Through SOM approach, several correlations have been determined in the production data set which are in accordance with the findings reported in the open literature. SOM predictions have been tabulated. These predictions will be helpful in achieving the optimum properties for various AHSS grades in the industry.

Fakültede Geçen Bir Yıl: Hemşirelik Birinci Sınıf Öğrencilerinin Bazı Değişkenler Yönünden Görüşlerinin İncelenmesi

Aim: This research is the students who attend a public university of the first class of the school of nursing satisfaction, critical thinking, and professional self-concept is intended to reveal the relationship between variables and to examine perceptions.
 
 Methods: The study was a cross-sectional study, with a sample of 265 students attending the first year of the Faculty of nursing. Research data was collected during the spring semester of the 2016-2017 academic year. The data in the research are the socio-demographic characteristics data form, Satisfaction Survey, California critical thinking trend scale, professional self concept scale. Descriptive statistics and pearson correlation analysis were used in statistical analysis of the data obtained from the study.
 
 Results: It was found that there was a significant relationship between the academic average of the students in the study and their will decisively coming to school and the concept of the professional self, and this result was predictive. Students' satisfaction, critical thinking professional self-perception levels were not found at the desired level.
 
 Conclusion: As a result of this study, it is recommended that nursing education be reconsidered and new regulations be made on critical thinking, problem solving and professional identity to the courses in the curriculum. In addition, it is proposed to increase social and cultural activities to increase students ' satisfaction with their university and school environment and the city in which they live.

Peer Assessment and Video Feedback for Fostering Self, Co, and Shared Regulation of Learning in a Higher Education Language Classroom

Self-regulated learning includes the cognitive, metacognitive, behavioral, motivational, and affective aspects of learning. The conceptualization of self and socially regulated learning has recently received much attention and peer assessment has been found to increase the use of metacognitive activity. The present exploratory qualitative study aimed to identify self-, co-, and socially shared regulatory processes in an oral English as a Foreign Language task. The regulatory activity deployed by 10 learners was studied within the context of a peer assessment task using an assessment form paired with video feedback in the context of an English language classroom at a French university. These interactions were filmed and discussed in individual self-confrontation interviews which were analyzed through inductive coding. Specific findings from the classroom setting shed light on existing gaps in the literature. First, students can gain confidence in their own skills through assessing their peers and activating regulatory processes both individually and as a group. Second, appropriate tools can increase co-regulated and socially regulated learning through the structuring of cooperative regulatory behaviors. Third, psychological safety appeared to be a propitious social context for supporting regulated learning (SRL, CoRL, and SSRL). We also shed light on the fact that adaptive regulatory strategies are present in oral (as well as written) English as a Foreign Language tasks. These results indicate the potential for learning situations based on video feedback used in conjunction with peer assessment and collaborative learning in order to develop regulatory behaviors in language learners.

Reporting on African Responses to COVID-19: African Philosophical Perspectives for Addressing Quandaries in the Global Justice Debate

The first case of COVID-19 infection in Africa was recorded in Egypt on 14 February 2020. Following this, several projections of the possible devastating effect that the virus can have on the population of African countries were made in the Western media. This paper presents evidence for Africa’s successful responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and under-reporting or misrepresentation of these successes in Western media. It proceeds to argue for accounting for these successes in terms of Africa’s communitarian way of life and conceptions of self, duty, and rights; and that a particular orientation in theorizing on global justice can highlight the injustices inherent in the misrepresentation of these successes and contribute shared perspectives to formulating a framework of values and concepts that would facilitate the implementation of global policy goals for justice. The paper is thus grounded in a rejection of the insular tenets of theorizing prevalent in the global justice debate and to persistent inclinations in Western scholarship to the thinking that theorizing in the African context that draws inspiration from the cultural past has little to contribute to the quest for justice globally. On the contrary, it argues that reflexive critique of cultural history is a necessary source of normative ideals that can foster tolerant coexistence and a cooperative endeavour toward shared conceptions of justice in the contemporary world.

Shakespeare’s and Shawqi’s Cleopatra: Portrayals of a Woman’s Moral Dilemma

This paper offers a comparative reading of Cleopatra, the most famous Egyptian queen in history, as portrayed by William Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra (1606) and Ahamad Shawqi in Mas’ra’ Cleopatra, (Death of Cleopatra) (1927). It aims at analyzing both portrayals from developmental psychological and feminist perspectives demonstrated particularly in Carol Gilligan’s theories. Gilligan explored the development of women’s morality and ethics of care in her influential book In a Different Voice (1982) and other subsequent publications. The aim is to investigate how Shakespeare and Shawqi portray her as a female protagonist, her manner of thinking, and her system of values. Cleopatra’s dilemma as a woman in her different roles as a queen, political leader, wife, mother, and lover is examined in the light of these theories of ethics of care/ justice and the power im/balance between the sexes. The methodology used in this study integrates Gilligan’s perspectives of women’s concepts of the self, morality, and how women handle issues of conflict and moral choices. The study reveals how both dramatists successfully portray Cleopatra’s moral reasoning with its different dynamics, struggling with her conflicts, choices, and decisions to find her own moral voice and self.

The specifics of discourse, mentalization and conceptualization of reality in the formation of a borderline personality

The subject of the study is the mutual influence of discourse deformations and cognitive mechanisms of mentalization and conceptualization of the world in a borderline personality. The aim of the work is to prove the decisive role of the deficits and defects of the "theory of mind" in the development and structuring of the borderline personal organization. The research methodology is represented by interdisciplinary categorical-genetic analysis and synthesis of theories and ideas of phenomenology, cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, psychotherapy, discourse analysis. The author examines the interaction of discursive and cognitive mechanisms of personality in the construction and personalization of the conceptual sphere and "theory of mind". The role of splitting in the conceptualization of reality and the connection of violations of mentalization with changes in the concept of Self are shown. A special contribution of the author to the study of the problem is the systematization of violations of mentalization as predictors of the development of borderline personal organization. The novelty of the research lies in determining the double determination of distortions of the conceptual sphere in the borderline personality by its discourse. Violations of conceptualization processes are described. The systematic organization of the operational units of the mental lexicon, memory and the conceptual sphere in their connection with discourse is determined. The main conclusion is the proof of the relationship between stereotypical discursive formulas, mental vocabulary, methods and abilities of the subject to process information and construct the conceptual sphere. The range of the subject's capabilities in this area is manifested in his discursive formulas of interpretations, assessments, self-regulation. The deformations of these phenomena and the deep rooting of discourse in the structures of thinking correlate with the formation of a pathological "theory of mind" and personal organization. The "borderline" conceptual sphere and the discourse "speaking" by the subject hinder reflection, honest internal dialogue, criticism of representations of reality and support the status quo of the pathology of cognition of reality and orientation in it. The study of the subject's speech models and the understanding of the cognitive-discursive mechanisms of his orientation in his Self and relationships has practical significance in the diagnosis of borderline personality organization and psychocorrective effects on it.