Identifying Imagoes: A Personality Exercise on Myth, Self, and Identity.

Dunn, Dana S.

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ERIC Number: EJ551325

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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Identifying Imagoes: A Personality Exercise on Myth, Self, and Identity.

Dunn, Dana S.

Teaching of Psychology, v24 n3 p193-95 1997

Identifies imagoes as idealized and personified self-concepts that we form in early or mid-adulthood. These characters dominate life stories and personal myths. Discusses a class exercise where students review the imagoes most frequently used in journal entries concerning individual myths and major life events. (MJP)

Descriptors: Higher Education, Imagery, Individual Development, Learning Activities, Personality Assessment, Personality Development, Psychology, Role Models, Self Actualization, Self Concept, Self Efficacy, Social Psychology, Student Attitudes, Student Journals

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Audience: Researchers

Language: English

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