CHAPTER X.

THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF SELF

The Empirical Self or Me. Its constituents. The material self. The Social Self. The Spiritual Self. Difficulty of apprehending Thought as a purely spiritual activity. Emotions of Self. Rivalry and conflict of one's different selves. Their hierarchy. What Self we love in 'Self-love'. The Pure Ego. The verifiable ground of the sense of personal identity. The passing Thought is the only Thinker which Psychology requires. Theories of Self-consciousness: 1) The theory of the Soul. 2) The Associationist theory. 3) The Transcendentalist theory. The mutations of the Self. Insane delusions. Alternating selves. Mediumships or possessions. Summary.