Physical self Flashcards
“The body is the source of sensation and necessary for the origin and maintenance of personality (which includes spiritual hygiene, body types, diseases and wellness).”
WILLIAM JAMES
“The body is the core of human experience because it constructs the self and the personality. Thus, the ego is tantamount to a body ego where the reality and pleasure principle (through the ID)come in contact with one another.”
SIGMUND FREUD
“Experience is anchored in the ground-plan of the body because it is the most important aspect of a person’s developmental phases.”
ERIK ERIKSON
“The role of the body is of prime importance because the self and personality are just explanatory fictions and the body is all there is.”
BF SKINNER
The body is an entity that must be rejected because it is the source of desire and attachments but at the same time must also be regarded and appreciated because it is the vehicle of spiritual growth and self-realization
HINDUISM
The Middle Path is of central importance in one’s attitudes towards the body as the source of personhood. This principle involves neither full indulgence of one’s all desires nor extreme asceticism or self-mortification.
BUDDHISM
-Refers to how someone thinks about, evaluates or perceives themselves (Myers, 2009).
SELF-CONCEPT
The answer to the questions: who am I, and what do I want others to see.
SELF-IMAGE
Circumvented in social identities, roles, culture, social comparisons and judgments.
SELF-IMAGE
The extent to which we value ourselves.
SELF-ESTEEM/SELF-WORTH
The self you would like to have or strive to be.
IDEAL SELF/POSSIBLE
SELF
Divided between the existential self and the categorical self
SELF-CONCEPT
becoming aware that one is also an object in the world
categorical self
the sense of being separate and distinct from others through a
consistent self
existential self
factors affecting the impact of culture and society on body image and self-esteem.
-Social Networking Sites
-Body Types
-Mass Media
-Gender and Sexuality
-Somatic Society
The onset and sudden indispensability of SNS in
our lives made us more vulnerable to social comparison and negative social pressure. We think that there are body and face templates and we try our best to fit in these templates only to self-inflate later on because it does not express who
we are
Social Networking Sites
Basic Physical Education and Biology tell us that there are three major types: endomorph, ectomorph and mesomorph.
Body Types
This includes fashion, films, music and the influence of the
showbusiness in our idea of what constitutes attractive and beautiful
Mass Media
the immanent importance of the discourse about gender, sexual preference, gender identity and expression, the so-called spectrum and their implication in the social order and social relationships
remain to be at the center of modern conceptions about the physical self. In this debate, it is important that we have a multi-layered munderstanding of the biology of sex and sociobiology and epigenesis for us to understand why self and body expression can also be constrained by gender and sexuality.
Gender and Sexuality
This concept was put forward by the sociologist Bryan Turner in the late 1990s to refer to the new found importance of the body in the contemporary society.
Somatic Society
He said that this Somatic society is the underlying principle in the obsession of people today to have beautiful bodies and faces which in more extreme terms
Bryan Turner
obsession of people today to have beautiful bodies and faces which in more extreme terms may lead to:
o Eating disorders like anorexia nervosa and bulimia.
o The demand for more cosmetics, skin whiteners and cosmetic surgery.
o Body shaming and body dysmorphism
