The Sacredness of Individuality: Introspection for Refuting States of Total Conviction in Boys and Men
This article offers an introspective meditation on what William James described as the 'fallible utility' of introspection, promoted here especially for countering experiences of shame, self-loathing, and melancholia-what Adam Phillips calls states of 'total conviction'-in boys a...
| Published in: | Pastoral psychology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
[2017]
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Pastoral psychology
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| RelBib Classification: | NCF Sexual ethics TJ Modern history ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
MENTAL depression
B Meditation B Shame B William James B Individualism B Male sexuality B On a certain blindness in human beings B Tolerance B Bipolar disorder B Introspection B James, William, 1842-1910 B Male Melancholia B Self-acceptance B Homoeroticism B Donald Capps B Adam Phillips |
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| Summary: | This article offers an introspective meditation on what William James described as the 'fallible utility' of introspection, promoted here especially for countering experiences of shame, self-loathing, and melancholia-what Adam Phillips calls states of 'total conviction'-in boys and men. The article draws on narratives from James's and the author's own youthful struggles and from James's 'On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings,' an essay he believed best captured 'the perception on which [his] whole individualistic philosophy is based.' It urges boys and men to attempt, against considerable odds, to practice a more generous self-acceptance, particularly of forbidden homoerotic interests, as their path to greater tolerance of idiosyncratic others. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-017-0774-0 |