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Human beings have an evolved capacity for self-awareness, along with a propensity to focus primarily on their own welfare. This pervasive self-focus is reflected in thoughts, emotions, and actions whose underlying theme is the pursuit of self-interest. Although a focus on oneself has clear adaptive functions—such as physical preservation, decision making, planning, and self-regulation—this pervasive egoic mindset has psychological, interpersonal, and societal costs. In an increasingly crowded and interdependent world, there is a pressing need for the investigation of alternatives to a “me and mine first” mindset. For centuries, many philosophers, scientists, spiritual leaders, and social activists have advocated a “hypo-egoic” way of being, a psychological mindset characterized by less self-preoccupation in favor of a more inclusive, “we first” mode of functioning. In recent years, investigation of a variety of topics under the umbrella of hypo-egoicism has emerged in psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and philosophy as researchers have investigated both the features of hypo-egoic states and the psychological experiences that arise when self-focused processing is reduced, such as flow, equanimity, mindfulness, compassion, and mystical states. Bringing together current scholarship and science from multiple fields, the Oxford Handbook of Hypo-egoic Phenomena provides an authoritative overview of theory, research, and applications concerning psychological states that involve diminished self-preoccupation and self-interest. The Handbook also reveals the widespread implications of such hypo-egoic functioning for personal well-being, optimal behavior regulation, interpersonal relationships, and prosocial and virtuous behavior.

Ego (Psychology) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Personality --- Psychoanalysis --- Psychology --- Self --- E-books

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"Goedele A. M. De Clerck presents cross-cultural comparative research that examines and documents where deaf flourishing occurs and how it can be advanced. She spotlights collective and dynamic resources of knowledge and learning; the coexistence of lived differences; social, linguistic, cultural, and psychological capital; and human potential and creativity. Deaf Epistemologies, Identity, and Learning argues for an inclusive approach to the intrinsic human diversity in society, education, and scholarship, and shows how emotions of hope, frustration, and humiliation contribute to the construction of identity and community. De Clerck also considers global to local dynamics in deaf identity, deaf culture, deaf education, and deaf empowerment. She presents empirical research through case studies of the emancipation processes for deaf people in Flanders (a region of Belgium), the United States (specifically, at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC), and the West African nation of Cameroon. These three settings illuminate different phases of emancipation in different contexts, and the research findings are integrated into a broader literature review and subjected to theoretical reflection. De Clerck's anthropology of deaf flourishing draws from her critical application of the empowerment paradigm in settings of daily life, research, leadership, and community work, as she explores identity and well-being through an interdisciplinary lens. This work is centered around practices of signed storytelling and posits learning as the primary access and pathway to culture, identity, values, and change. Change driven by the learning process is considered an awakening--and through this awakening, the deaf community can gain hope, empowerment, and full citizenship. In this way, deaf people are allowed to shape their histories, and the result is the elevation of all aspects of deaf lives around the world"--

EDUCATION / Special Education / General. --- Identity (Psychology) --- Deaf --- Deaf-mutes --- Deaf people --- Deafness --- Hearing impaired --- Deafblind people --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Services for --- Education --- Patients

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This edited work presents a collection of papers on motivation research in education around the globe. Pursuing a uniquely international approach, it also features selected research studies conducted in Singapore under the auspices of the Motivation in Educational Research Lab, National Institute of Education, Singapore. A total of 15 chapters include some of the latest findings on theory and practical applications alike, prepared by internationally respected researchers in the field of motivation research in education. Each author provides his/her perspective and practical strategies on how to maximize motivation in the classroom. Individual chapters focus on theoretical and practical considerations, parental involvement, teachers’ motivation, ways to create a self-motivating classroom, use of ICT, and nurturing a passion for learning. The book will appeal to several different audiences: firstly, policymakers in education, school leaders and teachers will find it a valuable resource. Secondly, it offers a helpful guide for researchers and teacher educators in pre-service and postgraduate teacher education programmes. And thirdly, parents who want to help their children pursue lifelong learning will benefit from reading this book.

Theory & Practice of Education --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Educational psychology --- Autonomy (Psychology) --- Research. --- Social aspects. --- Freedom (Psychology) --- Independence (Psychology) --- Self-determination (Psychology) --- Self-direction (Psychology) --- Dependency (Psychology) --- Ego (Psychology) --- Emotions --- Educational psychology. --- Educational Psychology. --- Psychology, Educational --- Psychology --- Child psychology --- Education—Psychology.

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Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Discourse analysis --- Women in economic development --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sociolinguistics --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Economic development --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Social aspects.

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This book depicts how Freud’s cocaine and Benjamin’s hashish illustrate two different critiques of modernity and two different messianic emancipations through the pleasures of intoxicating discourse.  Freud discovered the “libido” and “unconscious” in the industrial mimetic scheme of cocaine, whereas Benjamin found an inspiration for his critique of phantasmagoria and of its variant psychoanalysis in hashish’s mimesis. As part of the history of colonialism, both drugs generated two different colonial discourses and, consequently, two different understandings of the emancipatory powers of pleasure, the unconscious and dreams. Processing cocaine as an undisclosed industrialized scheme of euphoric pleasure, Freud constructed psychoanalysis by infusing its concepts with the residue of cocaine’s euphoria while foreclosing cocaine’s double colonialism its external colonialism, i.e. of Peru, and its internal colonialism, i.e. of the coca plant by industrial chemistry. On the other hand, considering the mimetic powers of Benjamin’s hashish intoxication as an antidote to the intoxicating power of the industrial phantasmagoria while at the same time an industrial colonization of nerves, allows for an opening up of Freud’s cocaine language to the critique of his double unconscious, colonial and industrial.

Colonies --- History. --- Freud, Sigmund, --- Freud, Sigmund --- Critical psychology. --- Civilization-History. --- Self. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Critical Psychology. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Cultural History. --- Self and Identity. --- Psychology --- Psychology, Pathological --- Personal identity --- Consciousness --- Individuality --- Mind and body --- Personality --- Thought and thinking --- Will --- Psychology, Critical --- Communism and psychology --- Culture. --- Civilization—History. --- Identity (Psychology). --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects