CHAPTER X.

THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF SELF

The Empirical Self or Me. Its constituents. The material

self. The Social Self. The Spiritual Self. Difficulty of

apprehending Thought as a purely spiritual activity. Emotions of

Self. Rivalry and conflict of one's different selves. Their

hierarchy. What Self we love in 'Self-love'. The Pure Ego.

The verifiable ground of the sense of personal identity. The

passing Thought is the only Thinker which Psychology requires.

Theories of Self-consciousness: 1) The theory of the Soul. 2) The

Associationist theory. 3) The Transcendentalist theory. The

mutations of the Self. Insane delusions. Alternating selves.

Mediumships or possessions. Summary.

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