Lesson 4 Psychiology

• Understanding the SELF

  1. Can be separated into three categories: Its constituents

  2. Self feelings

  3. Self-seeking & self-preservation
• Conception of SELF

  • The Perceived Self (How the person sees self and others see them)
  • The Real Self (How the person really is)
  • The Ideal Self (How the person would like to be)
• The "ME-SELF"


  • Phenomenal self, the experienced self or the self as known
• Freud


  Argued that self has multiple parts but believed ultimately we are unified beings
• True Self


  Rooted from childhood, based on spontaneous authentic experience and feeling of being alive
• Introduced by William James in his "The Principles of Psychology" (1890)
• Fake Self


  Defensive facade, sometimes overlaying or contradicting our original sense of self
• The SELF is

  • Cognitive and Affective
• The "I-SELF"


  • The self-thought or the self-knower
• The “ME-SELF”