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| PERSONALITY DISORDERS AND MODERN CULTURE | |
Autor: Francisco M. Murcia | |
| Volume: Vol 1. Numéro 1 & 2 -- Mai 2009 | |
| In this work, the relation between the modern social context and personality—
as an essential psychological entity—and its disorders were analyzed from a dialectic
perspective. Therefore, I have specified the bidirectional influences of social paradigmatic
changes in modernity—and in the case of postmodernity—on the construction of personal
identity. A historiography of the Self throughout the diverse eras and of the more relevant
social changes was carried out, emphasizing the consequences in the development of
character. The analysis includes a reflection on one of the pathologies of increasing
incidence in modern societies: image disorders. In the discussion, the difficulties to organize
the self in an extremely subjective world, which forces a person to self-realization as
existential task, is criticized | |
Language: English | |
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