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    The document discusses William James' conceptualization of the material self as having two subclasses: the bodily self and the extracorporeal self. It then describes how the material self includes all people, places, and possessions regarded as "ours." Specific examples of material self investment discussed are the body, clothes, immediate family, and home, with each representing an extension of one's selfhood.

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    The document discusses William James' conceptualization of the material self as having two subclasses: the bodily self and the extracorporeal self. It then describes how the material self includes all people, places, and possessions regarded as "ours." Specific examples of material self investment discussed are the body, clothes, immediate family, and home, with each representing an extension of one's selfhood.

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    MATERIAL SELF

    SALE! SALE!
    SELF
    William James conceptualized SELF as having 2 aspects- the “I” and
    the “me”.

    The “I” is the thinking, acting, and feeling self and the “me” on the
    other hand, is physical characteristics as well as psychological
    capabilities that makes who you are.
    MATERIAL SELF
    • The material self is
    a total of all of the
    tangible things you
    own:
    • your possessions
    • your home
    • your body
    MATERIAL SELF

    • The material self to


    tangible objects,
    people, or places
    that carry the
    designation:
    “my or mine”
    MATERIAL SELF

    • Two subclasses:
    • Bodily self
    • Extracorporeal
    self
    MATERIAL SELF
    Two subclasses:

    Bodily self Extracorporeal self

    It includes all of the people,


    places, and things that we
    regard as “ours.”
    Material Self Investment Diagram
    home

    Immediate
    family

    clothes

    body
    1. BODY
    The innermost part of our material
    self is our BODY. Intentionally, we
    are INVESTING in our body.
    BODY
    2. CLOTHES
    Herman Lotze’s ‘Philosophy of
    Dress’ James believed that:
    Clothing is an essential part of
    the material self.

    Lotze book: ‘Microsmus ’any


    time we bring an object into the
    surface of our body, we invest
    that object into the
    consciousness of our personal
    existence taking in its contours
    to be our own and making it
    part of the self.’ (Watson 2014)
    3. Immediate FAMILY
    Our parents and siblings hold another
    great important part of our self. What
    they do or become affects us.

    When an immediate family member dies,


    part of our self dies, too.
    When their lives are in success, we feel
    their victories as if we are the one holding
    the trophy.
    In their failures, we are put to shame or
    guilt. When they are in disadvantage
    situation, there is an urgent urge to help
    like a voluntary instinct of saving one’s
    self from danger.

    We place HUGE INVESTMENT in our


    immediate family when we see them
    as the nearest REPLICA of our self.
    Home Home is the earliest nest
    of our selfhood.

    Our experiences inside the home


    were recorded and marked on
    particular parts and things in our
    home.

    The home thus is an extension of


    self, because in it, we can directly
    connect our self
    INVESTMENT
    The collections in different degree of investment of self, becomes part of the
    self.
    As James (1890) described self: “a man’s self is the sum total of all what we CAN
    call his.”
    Possessions then become a part or an extension of the self.
    WE ARE WHAT WE HAVE

    Russel Belk (1988) – “we regard our possessions as part of ourselves.


    WE ARE WHAT WE HAVE AND WHAT WE POSSESS.

    The identification of the self to things started in our infancy stage when we make a distinction
    among self and environment and others who may desire our possessions.

    Material possession gains higher value in our lifetime if we use material possession to find
    HAPPINESS, associate these things with significant events, accomplishment, and people in our
    lives.

    There are even times, when material possession of a person that is closely identified to the
    person, gains acknowledgement with high regard even if the person already passed away.

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