Hierarchy Index Cards - J
Index-Card-J-12-03 Date 23.6.45
Index-Card-J-12-08 diagram
Card-J-12-09/10/11 Reading James: Textbook of Psychology
Index-Card-J-12-09 DH: [9] “You have no self save as you view it from other’s points of view. You live a life in others — that is what concerns [10] you. The life you live in others is your only life as you: the life others live in you is also your life — but theirs in you. Self consciousness is therefore only possible save in one who sees himself as living in others, in one who is actually living in others. You do not know yourself. Others & you as those others know you. The I the knower is then always the others who are observing me. My “I”, or I as knower of myself am you, & you, & you. My “I” as your knower, am myself, here. Thus I know myself as a function of what is not myself — i.e. as you & you & you in me — and I also know myself in another way; as me in you. In you I am something for myself, sui generis, & not always [11] the Me taking in others’ washing. But in myself I live by being you. YOU IN ME — I IN YOU. Only the I-in-you is sub generic, the Me we always think of as uniquely Me. The other, the you-in-me is the Me of… other-people’s-washing.
Now the I-in-you self and the You-in-me self expand together. The more hospitable the You-in-me, the more hospitality is given to the I-in-you. I grow here by taking in more & more other selves. I grow there by being taken in my more & more selves.
Card-J-12-14. Reading James: Textbook of Psychology
DH: “The extension is more you than the so-called body really & the further & more remote the extension the more it is you — the real you!!
The doctrine of Extension is fundamental & not half strongly enough put in the Unconventional Portrait.
Index Card J-12
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