Seeing the light : the social logic of personal discovery / Thomas DeGloma.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: DeGloma, Thomas (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Autonomy (Psychology)
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Religious awakening.
Physical Description:x, 243 pages : illustrations.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Discovering "truth"
  • Awakenings
  • Dimensions of autobiographical work
  • The awakening-story formula
  • The semiotic stricture of awakening stories
  • The awakener as a social type of storyteller
  • Autobiographical communities and autobiographical fields
  • Methods and data
  • Outline of the book
  • Awakenings: a cultural history
  • Zarathustra
  • Plato's allegory of the cave
  • Foundational religious awakenings
  • Foundational political awakenings
  • Freud and the psychoanalytic case study
  • Late modern awakenings
  • Mnemonic revisions and cultural contentions
  • Formulaic mnemonic revisions
  • Autobiographical memory and cultural contention
  • Shaping the collective mnemonic record
  • Shaping the cultural milieu for personal memory
  • Vocabularies of liminality
  • Sociomental express elevators
  • Sociomental staircases
  • Combining elevators and staircases
  • The temporally divided self
  • Portraying the temporally divided self
  • Culture and autobiographical narrative.