Journal articles: 'Self-transformation'

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Loy, David R. "Self Transformation, Social Transformation." Tikkun 25, no. 3 (May 2010): 54–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2010-3018.

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Leone, Robert. "Self Transformation." Harrington Gay Men's Literary Quarterly 8, no. 3 (May 15, 2007): 4–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j510v08n03_02.

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Kemp, Ryan. "The Self-Transformation Puzzle: On the Possibility of Radical Self-Transformation." Res Philosophica 92, no. 2 (2015): 389–417. http://dx.doi.org/10.11612/resphil.2015.92.2.11.

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Welsh. "Philosophy as Self-Transformation:." Journal of Speculative Philosophy 28, no. 4 (2014): 489. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.28.4.0489.

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White, Roger. "Poetry and Self–Transformation." Journal of Bahá’í Studies 1, no. 2 (June 1, 1988): 61–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.31581/jbs-1.2.414(1988).

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Recognizing that the central figures of their Faith wrote poems, members of the Bahá’í community rightly honor poetry. Unlike non-Bahá’í artists who may feel unappreciated and estranged from society because they have no shared view of the universe and whose poetry may become increasingly obscure, private, and difficult, the Bahá’í who writes poems enjoys a sense of family with an international audience made up of people who hold similar spiritual values and aspirations, and the Bahá’í poet can joyfully restate the eternal themes traditionally addressed in poetry, taking care to avoid imitating the Sacred Texts. In the process of engaging in this craft, the Bahá’í poet will be performing an act of worship which should not only transform the writer but also hold before readers the possibility of their being transformed too. White’s poem, “Rescue,” is cited to illustrate the point that transformation must originate from within the individual.

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Faux, II, William V., and John Magnasco. "Metaphors for Self-Transformation." Explorations in Media Ecology 7, no. 2 (June 1, 2008): 127–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/eme.7.2.127_1.

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Cohen, Bertram D., and Mark F. Ettin. "Self-Structure and Self-Transformation in Group Psychotherapy." International Journal of Group Psychotherapy 49, no. 1 (January 1999): 61–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207284.1999.11490943.

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Edwards, Catharine. "Self-Scrutiny and Self-Transformation in Seneca' Letters." Greece and Rome 44, no. 1 (April 1997): 23–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gr/44.1.23.

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The idea of a collection of letters from a Roman senator to his equestrian friend might encourage the reader familiar with the Letters of Cicero to expect a certain kind of self-revelation. Seneca, like Cicero, was one of the most prominent men in Rome in his own time. We might expect his letters to tell us his views on the emperor Nero, for instance, or what his motives were for retiring from public life (as he had done by the time he came to write the Letters). But readers of Seneca's Letters, at least in modern times, have often felt disappointed at his failure to provide information about himself and the world he lives in.

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Warren, Mark. "Democratic Theory and Self-Transformation." American Political Science Review 86, no. 1 (March 1992): 8–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1964012.

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Democratic theories that argue for expanding the scope and domain of democracy assume that democratic experiences will transform individuals in democratic ways. Individuals are likely to become more public-spirited, tolerant, knowledgeable, and self-reflective than they would otherwise be. This assumption depends on viewing the self as socially and discursively constituted, a view that contrasts with the standard liberal-democratic view of the self as prepolitically constituted and narrowly self-interested. The importance of the social and discursive view of the self is that it highlights how standard assumptions about the self help to justify limits to democratic participation. As now conceptualized, however, the transformational assumption does not meet standard objections to expanding democracy. I sketch an approach that distinguishes classes of interests according to their potentials for democratic transformation, and strengthens—by qualifying—transformative expectations in democratic theory.

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Harrison, Victoria S., and Rhett Gayle. "Self-transformation and Spiritual Exemplars." European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 12, no. 4 (December 30, 2020): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v12i4.3520.

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This paper focuses on the process of self-transformation through which a person comes to embody the ideal of her religion’s vision of the divine, as far as that ideal is expressible in a human life. The paper is concerned with the self as the subject of religious commitments, traits, religious aspirations and religiously inspired ideals. The self-transformative journey that people are invited to undertake poses a number of philosophical and practical difficulties; the paper explores some of these difficulties, concentrating on those that arise in connection with the notion of potential future selves. This paper suggests that imaginative reflection upon exemplary individuals provides one way through these difficulties, for these individuals can show us what it looks like when someone achieves, or draws close to, the ideal.

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Shilova, Lludmila S. "The Transformation of Self Care." Sociological Research 39, no. 5 (September 2000): 22–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/sor1061-0154390522.

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Grimshaw, Jean. "Ethics, Fantasy and Self-transformation." Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 35 (September 1993): 145–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1358246100006305.

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In this paper I want to discuss an issue (usually perceived as an ethical one) which has generated a great deal of feminist discussion and some profound disagreement. The issue arises as follows. One of the most important targets of feminist action and critique has been male sexual violence and control of women, as expressed in rape and other forms of violent or aggressive sexual acts, and as represented in much pornography. Pornography itself has been the subject of major and sometimes bitter disagreements among feminists, especially around the issue of censorship. But it is not that with which I am concerned here. The issue which I want to discuss involves the question of sexual desire and fantasy, and their apparent potential incompatibility with political and ethical principles. This is by no means, of course, an issue of exclusively feminist concern; but I shall focus on some recent feminist argument, since it is that with which I am most familiar.

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Benjamin, Graham, and Chris Mabey. "Organisational Transformation and the Self." Management Education and Development 21, no. 4 (December 1990): 327–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/135050769002100407.

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Christman, John. "Liberalism, Autonomy, and Self-Transformation." Social Theory and Practice 27, no. 2 (2001): 185–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract20012729.

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Schwartz, Andrew W. "Minimal Rationality and Self-Transformation." Social Theory and Practice 30, no. 2 (2004): 215–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract20043029.

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Bruner, Edward M. "Transformation of self in tourism." Annals of Tourism Research 18, no. 2 (January 1991): 238–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0160-7383(91)90007-x.

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Jamison, Stephanie W., David Shulman, and Guy G. Stroumsa. "Self and Self-Transformation in the History of Religions." Journal of the American Oriental Society 123, no. 3 (July 2003): 709. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3217796.

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Eriksen, Matthew. "Leading adaptive organizational change: self‐reflexivity and self‐transformation." Journal of Organizational Change Management 21, no. 5 (August 29, 2008): 622–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09534810810903252.

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Goodenough, Ward H. "Being Religious: Working at Self-Maintenance and Self-Transformation." Zygon? 34, no. 2 (June 1999): 273–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0591-2385.00212.

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Cox, Murray. "Book Review: Language and Self-Transformation." Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 87, no. 7 (July 1994): 434. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/014107689408700726.

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Busch, Thomas W. "Gadamer and Sartre on Self-Transformation." Symposium 6, no. 2 (2002): 195–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/symposium20026218.

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Silva, Arturo, Gregory B. Leong, and Robert Weinstock. "Delusions of Transformation of the Self." Psychopathology 26, no. 3-4 (1993): 181–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000284820.

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Taves, Ann. "McNamara's cognitive model of self-transformation." Religion 41, no. 1 (March 2011): 85–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0048721x.2011.553136.

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Maszczyk, Roman. "The symmetry transformation in self-duality." Classical and Quantum Gravity 12, no. 2 (February 1, 1995): 421–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/12/2/011.

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Pennachio, John. "Near-death experiences and self-transformation." Journal of Near-Death Studies 6, no. 3 (1988): 162–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01073364.

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Adler, Patricia A., and Peter Adler. "The Social Transformation of Self-Injury." Qualitative Sociology Review 18, no. 4 (October 31, 2022): 64–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.18.4.04.

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This research offers a description and analysis of the relatively hidden practice of self-injury: cutting, burning, branding, and bone breaking. Drawing on over 150 in-depth interviews and tens of thousands of website postings, e-mail communications, and Internet groups, we challenge the psycho-medical depiction of this phenomenon and discuss ways that the contemporary sociological practice of self-injury has evolved to challenge images of the population, etiology, practice, and social meanings associated with this behavior. We conclude by suggesting that self-injury, for some, is in the process of undergoing a moral passage from the realm of medicalized to voluntarily chosen deviant behavior in which participants’ actions may be understood with a greater understanding of the sociological factors that contribute to the prevalence of these actions.

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Grosso, Michael. "The Deep State of Self-Transformation." EXPLORE 14, no. 3 (May 2018): 234–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2018.03.005.

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Sánchez-Muñoz, Luis, Javier García-Guinea, Jean-Michel Rouer Beny, and Rocío Sanz Campos. "Mineral self-organization during the orthoclase-microcline transformation in a granite pegmatite." European Journal of Mineralogy 20, no. 4 (August 29, 2008): 439–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0935-1221/2008/0020-1844.

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Jiang, Jijuan, Yang Jia, Tong Wu, and Yachen Gao. "Transformation from Self-Focusing to Self-Defocusing of Silver Nanoparticles." Nanomaterials 11, no. 10 (September 24, 2021): 2485. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano11102485.

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The nonlinear refraction of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) in n-hexane was studied by using the closed-aperture Z-scan technique with a 532 nm nanosecond laser. It was found that, the nonlinear refraction of AgNPs shows the coexistence and transformation from self-focusing to self-defocusing. Specifically, self-focusing occurs at low excitation intensity, self-defocusing occurs at high excitation intensity, and coexistence of self-focusing and self-defocusing occurs at relatively moderate excitation intensity. The experimental results were analysed and discussed in terms of third-order and fifth-order nonlinear refractive effect. Specifically, the self-focusing is caused by the positive third-order nonlinear refraction, the self-defocusing is induced by the negative fifth-order nonlinear refraction, and the transformation from the self-focusing to self-defocusing at medium excitation intensity is caused by the competition of third-order and fifth-order nonlinear refraction. Finally, the third-order refractive index and fifth-order refractive index were obtained.

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Goldberg, Carl. "Risky Writing: Self-Disclosures and Self-Transformation in the Classroom." American Journal of Psychotherapy 57, no. 1 (January 2003): 151–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2003.57.1.151.

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Saleh, Saleh, and Humaidi Humaidi. "TRANSFORMASI DIRI BERDASARKAN FILSAFAT JIWA IBN SĪNĀ." Kanz Philosophia A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism 8, no. 1 (June 17, 2022): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.20871/kpjipm.v8i1.202.

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The purpose of this research is to formulate a theory of self-transformation based on Avicenna’s psychology. The research method used is descriptive qualitative analysis. Self-transformation is the process of changing the soul quality as to produce better changes in perception and behavior. The background of the research includes the weaknesses of the existing self-transformation methods; Avicenna’s psychology directs the soul to perfect the transformation; Avicenna’s psychology does not discuss his self-transformation theory explicitly; Avicenna has a better formulation of self-transformation theory than Aristotle implicitly; and it provides alternative self-transformation method.

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Armawi, Armaidy, Chesa Syaqira Makmur, Murni Septiyanti, and Darto Wahidin. "Digital learning transformation in strengthening self-resilience." Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan 18, no. 1 (April 1, 2021): 10–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.21831/jc.v18i1.36250.

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The Covid-19 pandemic has forced teachers to conduct learning activities online through digital technology. As they are accustomed to the conventional or offline learning process, this digital-based learning transformation has resulted in teachers experiencing shock culture and students affected immensely. The current research aims to describe the strategies applied for digital-based learning, examine challenges in digital-based learning, and identify digital-based learning impacts on students' self-resilience. It employs the qualitative research method, and the data consist of primary and secondary data. The primary one is derived from the observation of focus group discussion and documentation. The secondary one is in the form of references from books, journals, and articles. By data reduction and conclusion drawing in a descriptive qualitative analysis, the findings show that using learning application varies depending on the teachers' capability and convenience, and agreement from the institution. The only learning media used in the format are videos and pictures, considering the weak internet bandwidth and limited internet quota. The challenges in digital-based learning should be the point of attention for both teachers and parents. The impacts resulted from this digital-based learning system on students' self-resilience are considerable. Supports from family and school must be wholly given to reinforce students' self-resilience.

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Wang, Ning, Wengang Zhou, and Houqiang Li. "Contrastive Transformation for Self-supervised Correspondence Learning." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 35, no. 11 (May 18, 2021): 10174–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v35i11.17220.

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In this paper, we focus on the self-supervised learning of visual correspondence using unlabeled videos in the wild. Our method simultaneously considers intra- and inter-video representation associations for reliable correspondence estimation. The intra-video learning transforms the image contents across frames within a single video via the frame pair-wise affinity. To obtain the discriminative representation for instance-level separation, we go beyond the intra-video analysis and construct the inter-video affinity to facilitate the contrastive transformation across different videos. By forcing the transformation consistency between intra- and inter-video levels, the fine-grained correspondence associations are well preserved and the instance-level feature discrimination is effectively reinforced. Our simple framework outperforms the recent self-supervised correspondence methods on a range of visual tasks including video object tracking (VOT), video object segmentation (VOS), pose keypoint tracking, etc. It is worth mentioning that our method also surpasses the fully-supervised affinity representation (e.g., ResNet) and performs competitively against the recent fully-supervised algorithms designed for the specific tasks (e.g., VOT and VOS).

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Yukalov, V. I., and E. P. Yukalova. "Self-similar sequence transformation for critical exponents." Physics Letters A 425 (February 2022): 127899. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2021.127899.

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Iorizzo, Dolores. "Self-preservation and the Transformation of Nature." Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 58, no. 3 (2021): 47–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/eps202158342.

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Garber demonstrates the shortcomings of a popular and idealised version of Baconian scientific method set against his close reading of Bacon’s Novum Organum II. The results of Garber’s analysis show that Bacon had not one but two philosophies, both of which were informed by his matter theory and speculative cosmology. This paper draws out the implications of Garber’s reading of Baconian induction in physics transferred to the natural sciences, and draws attention to the ultimate aim of Bacon’s philosophical programme as the prolongation of life.

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Мариетта Дамировна, Шапсугова. "DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF SELF-EMPLOYMENT IN GIGNOMICS." NORTH CAUCASUS LEGAL VESTNIK 1, no. 3 (September 2021): 139–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2074-7306-2021-1-3-139-147.

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Cui, Li Shan, and Yan Jun Zheng. "Self-Tension of Martensite during Constrained Transformation." Materials Science Forum 475-479 (January 2005): 1937–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.475-479.1937.

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In a constrained martensitic transformation of shape memory alloys, a fraction of martensite is always retained in the materials. Experimental results showed that the remaining martensite could be plastically deformed by the generated recovery stresses. The self-tension process elevated the reverse transformation temperatures of the remaining martensite, and the external constraint conditions had no significant effect on the self-tension process of the remaining martensite.

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Sharp, Ann Margaret. "Self-transformation in the Community of Inquiry." Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 16, no. 1 (1996): 36–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/inquiryctnews199616129.

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Zuev, Dennis. "My Perestroika: Visualizing Self-transformation in Russia." Visual Anthropology 26, no. 5 (October 2013): 448–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2013.833834.

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Yadlin-Gadot, Shlomit. "Truth Axes and the Transformation of Self." Psychoanalytic Review 104, no. 2 (April 2017): 163–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/prev.2017.104.2.163.

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Robertson, Alison, and Theo Wildcroft. "Sacrifices at the altar of self-transformation." Body and Religion 1, no. 1 (July 7, 2017): 88–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/bar.31763.

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Within both cultural and academic understandings, conceptions of what pain is and the ways it is experienced are complicated by moral and medical pathologisation. Pain is often defined in a tautological fashion, as physical suffering or discomfort caused by illness or injury. Both the experience of pain and responses to that experience are shaped by context and are subject to forces of ideology. On the edges of religious experience there have always been those who explored pain and suffering as a ritual means or end. This paper examines how some people have negotiated the moral context and medicalisation of pain-filled experience, and why: from the physical alchemy of hatha yoga to body modification, BDSM and other complex behaviours often labelled as ‘self-harming’. Using personal accounts of encounters with pain as a guide, we will discuss how physical pain and stress are transformed by context and culture, to either enable or deny personal agency and mind–body integration.

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Klinken, Adriaan S. van. "Imitation as Transformation of the Male Self." Cahiers d'études africaines 53, no. 209-210 (May 28, 2013): 119–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/etudesafricaines.17259.

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Çizmeci, Esra. "Performing Sufi Disfiguration: Transformation of the self." Performance Research 23, no. 8 (November 17, 2018): 74–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2018.1573089.

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Renkema, Maarten, Tanya Bondarouk, and Anna Bos-Nehles. "Transformation to self-managing teams: lessons learned." Strategic HR Review 17, no. 2 (April 9, 2018): 81–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/shr-10-2017-0072.

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Purpose Although self-management is not a new phenomenon, there is a lack of understanding about how to transform organizations towards self-managing teams (SMTs). The purpose of this paper is to propose a guiding framework for how the empowerment process can be managed. Design/methodology/approach The paper sets out 12 guidelines on how to address the transition towards SMTs based on a case study at a large Dutch healthcare organization. The lessons are drawn from observations, documents and more than 55 interviews with key informants. Findings This paper provides a holistic overview of lessons learned from the transformation process towards SMTs. The 12 recommendations are targeted at four stakeholder groups, namely, the management/board, HRM department, coach-managers and members of the SMTs. Originality/value The originality lies in the systematic approach including lessons learned for all levels of the organization.

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Puhakka, Kaisa. "Beyond reflection: Loss and transformation of self." Humanistic Psychologist 20, no. 1 (1992): 33–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08873267.1992.9986777.

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Puhakka, Kaisa. "Beyond reflection: Loss and transformation of self." Humanistic Psychologist 28, no. 1-3 (2000): 334–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08873267.2000.9976999.

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Gerzi, Shmuel. "The Self as a Process of Transformation." International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology 11, no. 4 (September 2, 2016): 381–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15551024.2016.1213103.

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Mishra, Indira Acharya. "Transformation of the Feminine Self in Yogamāyā." JODEM: Journal of Language and Literature 10, no. 1 (September 30, 2019): 48–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jodem.v10i1.30398.

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This article aims to analyze the struggle of Yogamaya, the lead female character of the novel Yogamāyā, by Neelam Karki Niharika. The novel based on the real life story of a rebel, Yogamaya, chronicles the incidents of her life that triggered her to cast off her feminine self and rebel for the establishment of a just society based on equity. The article examines those factors that force Yogamaya to rebel against the existing society and the process of her rebellion drawing insights form Helen Cixous and other feminists who find patriarchal gender roles based on binary opposition as oppressive, and suggest that women should act beyond gender binary and subvert the patriarchal norms and values that restrict them in every walk of their lives. I use transliteration and free translation while citing from the novel in the analysis. The finding of the article suggests that a number of factors instigate Yogamaya cast of her feminine self and emerge as a rebel. It helps to understand how Yogamaya subverts patriarchy within its bound exposing the inherent biasness in it.

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Domański, Ryszard. "Self-organisation in Urban Systems Undergoing Transformation." Economics and Business Review 1, no. 1 (June 30, 2001): 7–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.18559/ebr.2001.1.478.

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The theory of self-organisation is an efficient tool for reconstructing the dynamics and evolution of urban and regional systems. It allows the adoption of realistic assumptions concerning socio-economic and spatial conditions of the operation and development of multi-component systems, and offers flexible methods that can be employed to derive from these assumptions a mechanism of the transformation of the macrostructures of such systems. The mechanism includes: nonlinearity, instability and disequilibrium, self- -reinforcement, interaction with the surroundings, and the formation of new (dissipative) structures capable of performing new functions. The author has participated in a research project on spatial self-organisation from an early stage of its development. In the present article, he gives a survey of selected conceptions of self-organisation and achievements in the application of this theory. He also presents the results of an empirical study of the economy of the city of Poznañ. The study focused on the question of the stability/instability of the principal domains of the city.s economic life in order to find out if there were mechanisms permitting the economy to regain stability and a new equilibrium after the profound structural changes brought about by the systemic transformation. (original abstract)

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Latona, Max J. "Myths of Self-Transformation in Plato’s Republic." Ancient Philosophy 43, no. 1 (2023): 69–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ancientphil20234314.

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In the Republic, a popular interpretation holds that Plato conceives knowledge (ἐπιστήμη) as a cognitive state that exclusively takes metaphysical intelligibles as its objects, i.e., the Good and the Forms. This interpretation claims further that ἐπιστήμη of perceptibles is impossible, such that the highest cognitive achievement one can attain in the perceptible world is opinion (δόξα). I have two main aims. First, I argue that this interpretation fails to convince us as to why the various ἐπιστήμαι of the craftsmen, the non-philosophic citizens, cannot constitute knowledge of a sortal kind. Second, the view seems to undermine Plato’s possible view on scientific knowledge, i.e., a kind of knowledge that plausibly involves observation of concrete phenomena, a thorough study of the observed phenomena, and drawing deductive or indicative conclusions in the perceptible world. I explore Plato’s possible view on scientific knowledge and propose that, among others, the various ἐπιστήμαι of the craftsmen (or most of them) plausibly constitute scientific knowledge, and their cognitive competence should be understood as such.

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