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The document summarizes key points about the material self from a lesson on understanding the self. It defines the material self as the physical elements that reflect a person, including their body, possessions, and home. It discusses how possessions can become part of our extended self and how losing possessions can feel like losing part of ourselves. The document also examines how consumer culture and materialism can impact our sense of self and identity.

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Lesson 3

The document summarizes key points about the material self from a lesson on understanding the self. It defines the material self as the physical elements that reflect a person, including their body, possessions, and home. It discusses how possessions can become part of our extended self and how losing possessions can feel like losing part of ourselves. The document also examines how consumer culture and materialism can impact our sense of self and identity.

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Southern Philippines Agri-business

and Marine and Aquatic School of Technology


Malita, Davao Occidental

The Material and


Economic Self
Unit 3 – Lesson 3

Group No. 3
Understanding the Self
At the end of the lesson, participants are expected to:

a.Define the material self;

b.Define how material self affects a persons; and

c. Explain the relationship between possessions and the


extended self.
Activity

Just Share Your Thought!

Question 1:
What is material self and how does it affects the
individual’s life?

Question 2:
How does possessions and extended self relates on
each other on affecting and changing a person’s life?
Lesson 3 – The Material and Economic Self

Sub-topic 2:
Sub-topic 1: Evidences by
The Material Self (Villafuerte, et.al.,
2018)

Sup-topic 3
The Role of Consumer
Culture on our Self and
Identity
The Material Self

• All the physical elements that reflect who a person


is

• Constituted by our bodies, clothes, immediate


family and home

• It is the three materials that we are more deeply


affected because of our investments of self within
these things
Evidences behind that money can change people
(Villafuerte, et.al., 2018)

• Social and Business Value – (social) person sees money as


worthy investments; (business) when money is offered as motivation

• Self-sufficiency and service – money conscious people

• Self-view – amount of one earns in both himself and others

• Ethics – perceive people most engage on unethical behavior

• Addiction – “behavioral or process addiction”; compulsive


behavior motivated by dependency that leads to positive outcome
The Role of Consumer Culture on our Self
on our Sense of Self and Identity

1. Possession and the extended self


• Viewed as part of the self, loss of possession should be regarded as
loss of self
• There is connection between wealth and health – “cycle of work and
spend” – work more to buy more

Examples:
• Evidence of deliberate lessening of self manifested in such institutions as
mental hospitals, home for the aged, prisons, concentration camps,
military training camps, boarding schools and monasteries – the first
steps in receiving new members of these institutions is to systematically
deprive them of all personal possessions including clothing, money and
even names, and there are restrictions in behaviors and conversations.

• Nonvoluntary loss of possessions such as in case of theft or casualty.


The Role of Consumer Culture on our Self
on our Sense of Self and Identity

2. Special Cases of Extended Self


a. Collections – (I shop therefore I am); transition objects or security
blankets for adults, becoming bases of the sense of self and identity.

b. Pets – representative of self; instrumental to self-identity as often


useful as transition objects (surrogate parents – surrogate children).

c. Body parts – central parts of the extended self; “Cathexis” in


psychoanalytic involves changes with emotional energy by the
individual.
Example:
• When a body part is more cathected, there is greater use of grooming products
to care for this part of the body like the face of celebrities (use of beauty
products), sexy body and muscles (diet, workout)
• Since body parts are normally central to conception of self, the loss of parts is
tantamount to losing one’s identity and one’s very being.
Summary

Therefore, the material self is all of the physical elements that reflect
who a person is which includes his/her body, possessions and home with the
body as its innermost part. Practical interest of a person is also a part of the
material self which includes the instinctive impulse of collecting property.
Luxury and materialism – the theory or belief that nothing exists except
matter, or a tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort
are more important than spiritual values, are by - products of material self
(Villafuerte, et.al., 2018).
Reference

• Alata, E. J. P., Caslib, B. N. Jr., Serafica, J. P. J. & Pawilen, R. A. (2018).


Understanding the Self. (1st ed.). Rex Book Store, Inc.
• Ariola, M. M. (2018). Understanding the Self. Unlimited Books Library Services
& Publishing, Inc.
• Palean, E. D. V., Nazario, M. B. D., Valero, J. B. G., Descartin, I. K. L. & Nuncio,
E. M. (2018). Introspection: Understanding the Self. Books Atbp. Publishing
Corp.
• Villafuerte, S. L., Quillope, A. F., Tunac, R. C. & Borja, E. I. (2018). Understanding
the Self. Nieme Publishing House, Co., Ltd.
Group 3

Facilitator: Rivas, Florencito B.


Members:
Agsaulio, Jayzel A.
Colyama, Lilibeth Joy T.
Gildore, Maria Angelica Kesha T.
Magsayao, Ruby Mae
Teh, Raiza Joyce G.

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