The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
The Divided Self: Internal Conflict in Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>This thematic project examines the notion of self-division, particularly in terms of the conflict between cognition and metacognition, across the fields of philosophy, psychology, and, most recently, the cognitive and neurosciences. The project offers a historic overview of models of self-division, as well as analyses of the various problems presented in theoretical models to date. This work explores how self-division has been depicted in the literary works of Edgar Allan Poe, Don DeLillo, and Mary Shelley. It examines the ways in which artistic renderings alternately assimilate, resist, and/or critique dominant philosophical, psychological, and scientific discourses about the self and its divisions. This dissertation argues that the internal conflict portrayed by the writers of these literary characters is conscious: it is the conflict of the metacognitive “I” against akratic impulses, unwanted cognitions, and, ultimately, consciousness as a whole.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Doctoral
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Comparative Literature
- Grantor
- The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
- Year dc:date.available
- 2024
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Greyman, Yulia
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- Vincent Crapanzano
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Jason Tougaw
- André Aciman
Subjects
dc:subject × 16Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/5621
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-6721