[{"key":"dc.contributor.author","value":"Yakimov, Christopher Doyle","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.accessioned","value":"2011-02-24T17:31:53Z","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.available","value":"2011-02-24T17:31:53Z","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.issued","value":"2006","language":null},{"key":"dc.identifier.uri","value":"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2429\/31740","language":null},{"key":"dc.description.abstract","value":"Eye mySelf is a narrative inquiry into the word \"self\" A discursive object (Danziger,\r\n2003; Cushman, 1990), \"self\" saturates the everyday language of reflexivity and remains a\r\nfamiliar feature of psychological literature and therapy. I have become familiar with it in my own\r\nlife: I have a Bachelor's degree in Psychology; I have participated in a year of Counselling\r\nPsychology coursework and supervised training; and from the age of two or three I participated\r\nin a therapeutic community, a community to which I belonged for close to 20 years.\r\nI know myself.\r\nOr do I? Do I know my \"self\"? How it works? What it does, or might do? I am\r\nsuspicious. I think my \"self\" might be getting away with something, and I want to explore this\r\nsuspicion. As a narrative inquiry into my own remembered experience of \"self,\" this thesis\r\nexplores language via language, and rests on Jacques Derrida's (1991, 2000) thought about signs,\r\nsignatures, and testimony, Judith Butler's (2004) thought about how we might be given over to\r\neach other, and Michel Foucault's (1990) thought about discourse, confession, and sexuality. It\r\nis organized as a collection of pens\u00e9es (Leggo, 1990) - thoughts, explorations, imaginings,\r\nwandering wonderings about \"self\" - with the hope of generating a salient and palpable\r\nresonance between the pieces (Heraclitus, 1987), a resonance of possibility for how \"self\" might\r\nwork, what it might do, how it does you and I, your \"I\" and my \"I\", (or is that \"eye\"?), and what\r\nthat might come to do to us.\r\nIn line with Butler's (2004) conceptions of the body as that which bears the human, I\r\nwant to evoke how it might feel to bear, perhaps by baring, a \"self.\" I mean to arouse suspicion\r\nfor this baring, for this \"self,\" and its place. To this end, I eye my \"self.\"","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.language.iso","value":"eng","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.publisher","value":"University of British Columbia","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.rights","value":"For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/terms_of_use.","language":null},{"key":"dc.title","value":"Eye mySelf","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.type","value":"Text","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.degree.name","value":"Master of Arts - MA","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.degree.discipline","value":"Education","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.degree.grantor","value":"University of British Columbia","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.type.text","value":"Thesis\/Dissertation","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.description.affiliation","value":"Education, Faculty of","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.degree.campus","value":"UBCV","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.description.scholarlevel","value":"Graduate","language":"en"}]