The Protean Self
Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation
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The Protean Self
Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation
"We are becoming fluid and many-sided. Without quite realizing it, we have been evolving a sense of self appropriate to the restlessness and flux of our time. This mode of being differs radically from that of the past, and enables us to engage in continuous exploration and personal experiment. I have named it the 'protean self,' after Proteus, the Greek sea god of many forms."—from The Protean Self
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Table of Contents
Preface
1. The Changing Psychological Landscape
2. History and the Self
3. America, the Protean Nation
4. Odd Combinations
5. Sources of Flux and Form
6. Poise and Equipoise
7. Enduring Connections
8. Life Stories
9. The Fundamentalist Self
10. The Dark Side
11. The Protean Path
Notes
Index
1. The Changing Psychological Landscape
2. History and the Self
3. America, the Protean Nation
4. Odd Combinations
5. Sources of Flux and Form
6. Poise and Equipoise
7. Enduring Connections
8. Life Stories
9. The Fundamentalist Self
10. The Dark Side
11. The Protean Path
Notes
Index
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