THE SUBJECTIVE SELF
A Portrait
inside logical space
Harwood Fisher
The personal experience of self has been lost in a surge toward scientific description. Along with the salutary need to view and build the self, as an object, is the shunning of a psychology that accounts for the individual's agency and for the self as an origin. Out of the void, in which the person, as a subject, disappears, because of a lack of logical and psychological identity, there are remnants for the building of a picture of the self.
Working with ideas from Kurt Lewin, Jean Piaget, and Charles Sanders Peirce, I visualize a logical space. First I show and critique results all too common in various versions of the psychology of the mind and self . Then, I show how the logical structures of metaphor and category can be synthesized to make a picture of the self as an origin and as a unique identity.