Analysis Of My Life As A Dog

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Just What I Am What makes us who we are? To answer that question we must establish what we are. We are the most advanced generation of human being the world has ever seen. We as a people come up with new innovations and inventions every day that make life easier. It’s fairly easy to get caught up in what we are as a society and just think that who we are as well but, this isn 't the case. Who we are is also known as our personal identity and there are many aspects of this identity, so many in fact that focusing on only a few comprehensive aspects and going into depth on these aspects will provide a coherent view of what goes into making us who we are. The first aspect of the personal identity is developed inside yourself and is referred to as your personal-self. This is your self-awareness or self-knowledge. Self- awareness is developed through personal experiences in life and pertains to the decisions that we make and that we are all responsible for …show more content…

This has to do with the things we find meaning in and the how we see ourselves in relation to those things. This is how you identify yourself in relation to other things in the world. In, My Life as a Dog, Ingemar finds the most meaning in his time he spends with his mother and his dog. He is his mother 's son and his dog 's owner, which are parts of who he is because he finds meaning in being those things. This is explained as the “conceptual-self” by Neisser. He says, “ Each of us has a concept of him/herself as a particular person in a familiar world. These self-concepts originate in social life, and so they vary widely across different societies and culture.” (Neisser 52). For example, I can identify myself as a student, this is part of me and who I am because school is something that I find meaning in. What we find meaning in and eventually pursue in life says a lot about who we are and contribute greatly to the search for personal

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