Beschreibung:
Logi Gunnarsson is Professor of Philosophy at University of Potsdam, Germany.
This study offers both a full-fledged philosophical theory of personal identity and a systematic account of multiple personality. Gunnarsson combines the methods of analytic philosophy with close hermeneutic and phenomenological readings of cases from different fields, focusing on psychiatric and psychological treatises, self-help books, biographies, and fiction.
Preface Part I: Introduction Am I Alone in My Body? Multiple Personality Personal Identity Part II: Diachronic Identity What Am I Fundamentally? Empirical Discernability and Fission My Body The Various Senses of "Personal Identity" Part III: Multiple Personality and Individuation Morton Prince's Seminal Case Study The Dissociation of a Personality Philosophical Theories of Multiple Personality The Coexistence Thesis Sharing My Body A Criterion of Individuation Multiple Personality in Therapeutic and Biographic Discourses Multiple Personality in Literary Discourses Notes Bilbilgraphy Inbdex