This book extends the contemporary concept of the minimal self by introducing the affective core self. This volume contributes to the multidimensional analysis of the self by positioning the affective core self between the layers of the more minimal and the less minimal self.
Lajos Horváth is an assistant professor at the institute of philosophy of the University of Debrecen. His current research focuses on the relationship between phenomenology and psychoanalysis. His work and recently published papers are supported by the János Bolyai Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (BO/00189/21/2) and by the No. K 138745 project of the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund.
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Part I. Consciousness and the self.- 1. Consciousness and the self.- 2. The narrative self and the minimal self.- Part II. Varieties of the phenomenological unconscious.- 3. The unconscious in psychoanalysis and phenomenology.- 4. Body memory and the unconscious.- Part III. Psychopathology and the minimal self.- 5. Phenomenological psychiatry of schizophrenia.- Part IV. The unconscious and the minimal self.- 6. Time-consciousness and affective identity.- 7. The affective core self and affective identity.- 8. Summary and conclusions.