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The Awareness Trap: Self-Absorption Instead of Social Change

Book by Edwin Schur; Quadrangle/The New York Times, 1976

Subjects:

Psychotherapy--Social Aspects, Self-Perception, Social Change

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...ones feelings, this represents a clear invitation to self-absorption. The latent political implication seems equally apparent...example in breaking down stereotypes, or in strengthening self-respect and personal assertiveness. But it does not...
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Immigrants and Bureaucrats: Ethiopians in an Israeli Absorption Center

Book by Esther Hertzog; Berghahn Books, 1999

Subjects:

Bureaucracy--Israel, Immigrants--Services For--Israel, Israel--Ethnic Relations, Jews, Ethiopian--Israel--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...within a given bureaucratic situation -- an absorption center for Ethiopian immi grants in Israel...motion. The "closed world" was perceived as self-evident both to those inside the absorption center and those outside it. Resources and...
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Sex and Self-Respect: The Quest for Personal Fulfillment

Book by Philip M. Helfaer; Praeger Publishers, 1998

Subjects:

Self, Self-Esteem, Self-Realization, Sex (Psychology)

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...self-acceptance, the antidote for nagging self-doubts and self-criticisms. It does not imply self-absorption, self-enhancement, or self-aggrandizement. It is "ongoing" in nature, calming and steadying, although "quiet," unlike...
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Self-Fulfillment

Book by Alan Gewirth; Princeton University Press, 1998

Subjects:

Self-Realization

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...of the ideal of self-fulfillment. The most familiar of these bears on the egoism, the self-absorption and self-aggrandizement which the quest for self-fulfillment is thought to engender. As a superlative object of aspiration, self-fulfillment...
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Self Love and Christian Ethics

Book by Darlene Fozard Weaver; Cambridge University Press, 2002

Subjects:

Christian Ethics, Love--Religious Aspects--Christianity, Self-Esteem--Religious Aspects--Christianity

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...traditional understanding of sin as prideful self-absorption ignores the fact that Womens sin is precisely the failure to turn toward the self. The sin which involves God-forgetfulness and self-forgetfulness is not properlycalled pride...

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"Seeing and Feeling Ghosts": Absorption, Fantasy Proneness, and Healthy Schizotypy as Predictors of Crisis Apparition Experiences

Journal article by Alejandro Parra; The Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 70, 2006

Subjects:

Apparitions--Psychological aspects, College students--Psychological aspects, Ghosts--Evaluation, Parapsychology--Evaluation

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Feeling Ghosts": Absorption, Fantasy Proneness...proneness; the Tellegen Absorption Scale (34 true...developed an 18-item self-report inventory...to absorbing and self-altering experiences ("absorption"), a trait related...
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Relationships between Meditation Depth, Absorption, Meditation Practice, and Mindfulness: a Latent Variable Approach

Journal article by Britta Hölzel, Ulrich Ott; Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, Vol. 38, 2006

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Atkinson, 1974). Absorption includes aspects such...thinking in images, self-forgetfulness, vivid...instrument to measure absorption is the Tellegen Absorption...result of a so called "self selection". This alternative...view also applies to absorption, which could be the...
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Odes of Absorption in the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century

Journal article by Margaret Koehler; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 47, 2007

Subjects:

Odes--Criticism and interpretation, Odes--History, Restoration age literature--Criticism and interpretation, Restoration age literature--History

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Odes of Absorption in the Restoration and Early Eighteenth...object. (20) An ode of powerful absorption thus emerges. The voice of the Restoration...silence and opening himself to full absorption in the object of invocation, the other...
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Religion and the Market: Opposition, Absorption, or Ambiguity?

Journal article by David W. Haddorff; Review of Social Economy, Vol. 58, 2000

Subjects:

Durkheim, Emile--Philosophy, Markets (Economics)--Religious aspects, Marx, Karl--Philosophy, Polanyi, Karl--Philosophy, Weber, Max (Sociologist)--Philosophy

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...assumptions. Like the absorption theory, the third...Even though the self-regulating market...description of how the self is affected by...literature on the absorption theory is far less...The Economic Absorption of the Sacred...Egos without Selves: A Theological...
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"Between Absorption and Extinction": Charles Chesnutt and Biopolitical Racism

Journal article by Ryan Jay Friedman; The Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 63, 2007

Subjects:

African Americans, Citizenship, Civil rights, Endangered & extinct species, Political theory, Politics, Race, Racial differences, Violence

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

"Between Absorption and Extinction": Charles...paradoxically, by the "absorption" (FA 124) over many...if total biological "absorption" represents the only way...paradoxical, potentially self-defeating argument about...

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The Screwtape Letters: Sophistication and Self-Absorption

Magazine article by Dolores T. Puterbaugh; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 139, January 2011

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Screwtape Letters (Novel)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...Sophistication and Self-Absorption. by Dolores T. Puterbaugh...culture and our higher selves today. Essayist William...becomes a sort of self-induced obsessive...So, if gluttony is self-absorption in terms of ones wants...
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Me, Myself and I: Rachel Cooke Bemoans the Self-Absorption of Celebs Uncovering Their Ancestry

Magazine article by Rachel Cooke; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 140, October 17, 2011

Subjects:

Celebrities, Emin, Tracey--Personal narratives

Collections: Entire Library

...and I: Rachel Cooke Bemoans the Self-Absorption of Celebs Uncovering Their Ancestry...usually respectable vehicle for their self-promotion - and I suppose that...was forgetting: the guests are too self-absorbed to care. For this is...
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Master Minds: What Makes a Genius? Certainly Not Going on a Creativity Course and Learning to "Think outside the Box". According to an Exhibition Devoted to Nobel Laureates, Genius Is the Product of Grinding Practice, Heroic Self-Absorption and the Ability to Recover from Mistakes

Magazine article by Michael Bywater; New Statesman, Vol. 134, November 28, 2005

Subjects:

Genius--Exhibitions, Genius--Psychological aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Product of Grinding Practice, Heroic Self-Absorption and the Ability to Recover from...extra mile (or extra dollar) in self-improvement. Creativity and...encountered) a degree of self-absorption that can neither be learned nor...
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NAS' Call to Action; Nearly 300 Academics and Others Met Recently at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Scholars. Topping the Agenda Were the Dangers of Political Correctness to the American Academy and Academic Self-Absorption in Time of War

Magazine article by Stephen Goode; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, July 1, 2002

Subjects:

Academic freedom--United States, National Association of Scholars--Conferences, meetings, seminars, etc., Universities and colleges--Moral and ethical aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...the American academy and academic self-absorption in time of war by Stephen Goode They...and what are virtue, honor and self-sacrifice must be addressed...itself and prefers triviality and self-absorption to the more serious...
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They've Got to Get It out of Their Systems: The British, Once Admired for Their Dignity and Self-Restraint, Have Become a Nation of Exhibitionists. Theodore Dalrymple Laments This Development

Magazine article by Theodore Dalrymple; New Statesman, Vol. 131, December 16, 2002

Subjects:

National characteristics--Social aspects, Self-control--Evaluation, Self-control--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Emotional incontinence, moreover, encourages self-importance and self-absorption: a process that is all too visible in our media...the trivial fluctuations of our emotional state. Self-pity becomes the dominant factor of our lives...

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Growing Self-Absorption a Dangerous Trap

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), December 24, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Growing Self-Absorption a Dangerous Trap. Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT...concerts or athletic spectacles. Our self-absorption makes the latest video games...that I know of no virtue of selfishness. Self esteem? Yes. The value of self? Yes...
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TERRIBLE TRACEY; the Real Shocks Are Not the Crude Images of Bodily Functions and Rude Words on Neon Signs but the Self-Absorption of BritArt's Poster Girl; EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 19, 2011

Subjects:

Art exhibitions, Art--Exhibitions, Emin, Tracey, Petroleum industry

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Rude Words on Neon Signs but the Self-Absorption of BritArts Poster Girl; EXHIBITION...unmediated autobiographical relics and self-centred sentimentality. In the...concupiscence and misery reconstructed in self-pity. Neither had much to do with...
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A Balanced View of Self

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), May 16, 2011

Subjects:

The University of Texas at Austin

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...constant struggle always to feel better than average can lead to narcissism, self-absorption and even anger, Neff says. "Self-compassion is a good alternative to self-esteem. It has the upside of appreciating the good things about ourselves...
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PRETTY AWFUL! Smug, Vain, Self-Centred ... in Eat Pray Love, Julia Roberts Plays Cinema's Most Irritating Leading Lady for Years

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 24, 2010

Subjects:

Eat Pray Love (Motion picture), Roberts, Julia

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...horribly as he consigns Liz to the great self-help workshop in the sky. Theres...masterstroke to turn this into a monument to self-absorption and plastic piety, starring an actress...Roberts with Javier Bardem) takes self-absorption to a new level
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THE ORIGINAL AIRHEAD; Talentless, Lazy and Self-Absorbed. as a New Film Celebrates Her Life, LEO McKINSTRY Says Monroe Was the Model for Today's Breed of Vapid C-Listers

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 17, 2011

Subjects:

Monroe, Marilyn

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...ORIGINAL AIRHEAD; Talentless, Lazy and Self-Absorbed. as a New Film Celebrates...victimhood, infantilism, vulgarity and self-absorption. The victim was the role she always...scathing: She is the stupidest, most self-indulgent tart I have ever come...

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Narcissism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Narcissus, indicating an exclusive self-absorption. In psychoanalysis, narcissism...where an individual has a healthy self-regard and realistic aspirations...harbor an exaggerated sense of his own self-importance and uniqueness. He...
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Joyce, James

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...married Nora. Her practical, sometimes cynical response to Joyces work provided a needed complement to his own self-absorption. Joyce and Nora had a turbulent relationship; both were profoundly affected by the progressive insanity of their...
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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...character and mood; his plots describe the desolation of lonely people and the misunderstandings that accrue from self-absorption and desperation. His focus on internal drama was an innovation that had enormous influence on both Russian and foreign...
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British Empire

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...timber. To achieve the imperial self-sufficiency required by prevailing...Mughal empire permitted the absorption of one area after another by...identity and of relative national self-sufficiency, as well as a...in Britain favoring colonial self-government, made the British...
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Quietism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the soul before God and the absorption of the individual in the divine...about an entire cessation of self-consciousness, and Madame...could not sin, for sin was self, and she had rid herself of self. Molinos and his doctrines...

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