DIMENSIONES DE LA "IPSEIDAD" -FENOMENOLOGÍA Y TEORÍA DE LA ACCIÓN-

Abstract

The central topic of this article is teh selfhood, and hece the question concerning the meaning of the "self", of the self-referential being. After claiming that the latter ought to be understood as a project within the time, two opposite stances are analyzed: a cognitivist one, who understands it as a "project of rationalization", and a phenomenological-hermeneutic one, describing it as a "craving for being". Accordin to the author, the selfhood is a process involving a productive opposition, or tension, between teh two mentioned dimensions. The concepts of "identity" and "autonomy" throw light on this thesis. In connection with the former, the selfhood shows the tension between "discursive" and "narrative" identity. If the second concept provides the starting point, then the selfhood evinces a tension between the logic of "rational self-determination" and the demands of the "maintenance of the self".