Beyond Body–Mind: Self-narratives and Consciousness

Abstract

Strong subjective factors embedded in self-existence and the non-reductive and encompassed existence of the self imply the need for imagining self-representations that are inclusive and integrated. Towards this end, arguments from philosophy of psychology, consciousness studies, literature, and material culture are presented. They facilitate understanding the presence and formation of selfnarratives. There is need to trace the presence of the self both within and beyond the space of body–mind and the self-narratives. Also, the understanding of subjective nature of consciousness lies in the process of epsitemologizing ‘experience’ and its self.