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Abstract
It is widely held that reflexivity is the defining feature of selfhood: the ability of the self to stand in a certain relation to itself. The question of how exactly to theorize this self-relation, however, has been the source of ongoing debate. In recent years, Kantian and post-Kantian approaches such as Christine Korsgaard's constitutivism and Richard Moran's commitment view, have attempted to establish the priority of the agential over the epistemic self-relation, thereby re-orientating the debate away from metaphysics and epistemology towards ethics and moral psychology. Despite the important progress they make towards a de-alienated and reified understanding of the self-relation, however, I argue that the Kantian paradigm is ultimately inadequate because its methodological individualism makes it incapable of accounting for the irreducibly social dimension of the self-relation and, therefore, of successfully making the transition from ethics to social and political philosophy. In other words, an adequate ontology of the self-relation is possible only as a social ontology. In order to motivate this thesis, I appeal to two examples that expose the "social deficit" of the Kantian approach: Frantz Fanon's phenomenology of race/racism in "The Lived Experience of the Black" and the phenomenon of cultural collapse in Jonathan Lear's Radical Hope. I then go on to provide a sketch of an alternative approach based on the notion of "self-appropriation", distinguishing it from Rahel Jaeggi's use of the term in her recent critique of alienation, in the process.

Bernard Sorofman Awareness of self-care for health has increased in recent years. Information is obtained through a wide variety of promotional activities about symptoms and treatments to assist in the determination of self-care actions. Sources of lay oriented self-care information include traditional health industry advertising, lay initiated self-care / self-help information, manufacturers' direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs and indirect-to-consumer promotional activities such as "medical breakthrough" news releases. This article covers several forms of medication promotion for self-care and explores the "medicalization" and "pharmaceuticalization" of self-care for health by health professionals.

ZusammenfassungIn diesem Beitrag der Zeitschrift für Psychodrama und Soziometrie setzt sich der Autor mit den Grundlagen der Selbsterfahrung auseinander. "Selbsterfahrung" ist ein reflexives Nominalkompositum, das aus dem Intensifikator "selbst-" und dem nominalisierten Verbum "erfahren" zusammengesetzt ist. Das semantische Feld des Kompositums besteht folglich nicht nur in der Reflexivität (Erfahrung der eigenen Existenz), sondern auch in Intensivierung und emphatischer Bekräftigung von Seele und Identität: Das reflexive Kompositum "Selbsterfahrung" ist die verdichtete Version der reflexiven Proposition "sich erfahren". Der Prozess sprachlicher Reanalyse, Abstraktion und Verdichtung kann das abstrakte, mit dem bestimmten Artikel als individuelles Konzept gebrauchte Nomen "Selbst" entstehen lassen. Dieser sprachliche Prozess vom Handlungsverb zum reflexiven Nominalkompositum und zum abstrakten Nomen drückt aus, was auf der Bühne geschieht: "Role playing is prior to the emergence of the self. Roles do not emerge from the self, but the self may emerge from roles" (Moreno). Um das Entstehen des Selbst zu verstehen, sollten Psychodramatiker(innen) die Ich-Selbst-Achse im Auge behalten.