...William James as " the material me, the social me, and the spiritual me." "A man's me," he continues, "is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only...reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and bank account."1 Many of these aspects of the "me" play an important r61e in disease, and yet may be...

...pursue this point of view still farther we arrive at William James's identification of the person with " the sum total of all that he can call his, not only...his clothes and his house, his wife and children. ..." This is perfectly justifiable if we choose to interpret the term "self", as James himself says,...

...Psychology (vol. L p. 291). " In its widest possible sense," he says, " a man's self is the sum-total of all that he can call his, not only his body and psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his...

...if I had nothing to do with it at all. In its widest possible sense, however, a man's Me is the sum of all that he can call his, not only his body and...powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and his children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht...

...of nature is the content of mind, or with William James that, in its widest sense, " a man's self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only...his wife and children, his ancestors and friends," etc., etc. Language of this sort I regard as woefully misleading. What Bosanquet designated " the world...

...If the latter idea be emphasized, it may be said that "in its widest possible sense a man's self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only...powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and his children, his ancestors and his friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht...

...an illusion. Now this isn't as alarming as it first may seem. William James defined a man's self as "the sum total of all that he CAN call his, not only...clothes and his house, his wife and children, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and bank-account."9 A biologist would go even...

...the things one owned were part of the self : In its widest possible sense, however, a man's Self is the sum total of all that he CAN call his, not only...bank-account. All these things give him the same emotions (1890/ 1950, vol. 1, p. 291). In this passage James, who had an eclectic theory of the self, was drawing...

...as a structure of commodity fetishism. "In its widest possible sense," he writes, "a man's Self is the sum total of all that he CAN call his, not only...his lands and horses, and yacht and bank-account" (PP 1:291). m Despite his radical opposition to Jamesian Pragmatism, Santayana wrote that he remained...

...BETWEEN MOTIVATION AND VALUATION Recall James's (1890) definition of the self as "the sum total of all he can call his, not only his body and his psychic...his lands and horses, and yacht and bank-account" (p. 291). Having said this, James immediately went on to say, "All these things give him the same emotions....