THE SATURATED SELF: DILEMMAS OF IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY LIFE
PREFACE
THE SELF UNDER SIEGE
Intro
The Self: From the Romantic to the Postmodern
The Cultural Location of Self
The Self Through History
Language and Encumbering the Self
Coming Attractions
FROM THE ROMANTIC TO THE MODERN VISION OF SELF
Intro
Romanticism and the Reality of the Deep Interior
The Rise of Modernism
The Grand Narrative of Progress
The Quest for Essence
The Metaphor of the Machine
The Production of Modern Man
The True and Accessible Self
Manufacturing the Individual
Personality and the Autonomous Individual
SOCIAL SATURATION AND THE POPULATED SELF
Intro
The Technologies of Social Saturation
High Life in High Tech
Air Headings
Vistas of Video
Electronic Innovation and the Proliferation of Relationships
The Process of Social Saturation
Multiplying Relationships
Bending the Life-Forms
Intensifying Interchange
Populating the Self
Multiphrenia
Vertigo of the Valued
The Expansion of Inadequacy
Rationality in Recession
TRUTH IN TROUBLE
Intro
Modernism and the Coming of Multiplicity
Crisis in the Academy
From Facts to Perspectives
The Knower as Demagogue
The Disappearance of the Knower
Separating the Knower from the Known
Fathoming Other Minds
The Deconstruction of Mind and Object
THE EMERGENCE OF POSTMODERN CULTURE
Intro
The Loss of the Identifiable
The Social Construction of Reality
Authority Challenged
The Breakdown of Rational Order
Self-Reflection and the Intrusion of Irony
FROM SELF TO RELATIONSHIP
Intro
The Human Being in Question
Gender Gerrymandering
Constructed Selves
The Strategic Manipulator
The Pastiche Personality
The Emergence of the Relational Self
Languages of Relationship
The Social Ownership of Personal History
The Emotions Among Us
Morality Beyond the Individual
A COLLAGE OF POSTMODERN LIFE
Intro
Breaking the Binds that Tie
The Crisis in Intimacy and Commitment
Fractional Relationships: "Why Not Take One-Eighth of Me?"
Ersatz Being
Invitation to the Carnival
Toward Serious Play
SELF-RENEWAL AND SINCERITY
Intro
Resistance to Retrenchment
The Nostalgia for Leadership
The Return to Inner Resources
The Cementing of Community
The Half-Life of Sincerity
Fractionation and Compensation
From Passion to Performance
Movements and Metaphors
RECKONING AND RELATIVITY
Intro
A Centennial Damage Report
Progress, Pregress, and Pluralism
From Individualism to Relational Realities
Totalizing Discourse vs. the Free Play of Being
Conflict and Convergence
Home (ego death and self-control cybernetics)