Rethinking of women’s Self A Critical Analysis

Abstract

 The Self, in its technical sense, is a challenging notion in modern intellectual discussions and the theory of knowledge as well. This, along with the issue of Individuals’ everunending search for it and its construction and reconstruction in relevance to dynamic social ties and its surroundings, is a central point of discussion, both in the contemporary anthropological sense of views and gender-related analytical contexts. Individual constructs his/herself incessantly based on his/her environments, situations and surroundings, again split its edge and re-notify this, when necessary. It’s through the concept of the self, that individuals establish their identities. They create it in light of gender, class, age, socioeconomic position and environmental situations. Hence, it’s different from individual to individual, men to women and even women to woman. Selfrelated comprehensibility defers from person to person based on their  observations and realities, and so is in the mechanism of self-related formation and its reformation. It is not only the identity of an individual’s existence or presence but also a kind of ever-flowing essence of life. Therefore, it may be considered a blended  phenomenon of a person’s psychology, society and tradition. Self-centred awareness, consciously and sometimes even subconsciously, inspires people to construct and reconstruct their self. Again, the process of social and traditional formation inspires them to generate awareness.
This article aims to draw mainly on the importance of studying the self with the representation of complex analysis of different  theoretical frameworks and the postmodern streams, especially with the post-modern feministic point of view. Apart from its introduction and conclusion, this article includes discussions on four distinct phases. How the self is defined has been discussed in the first phase. The philosophical base of studying it has been brought to light in the second phase. The next phase includes the discussion, in brief, on the way the self is being conceptualized with psychological, social and anthropological spirits. And finally, the importance of herself and its analysis in the study of a woman through the presentation of the conceptualization of the self and its limitation with the post-modern feministic views in light of empirical knowledge has been carried out in the fourth phase.