Building the Self. A Contextual Approach

espanolSe plantea una reconsideracion de la formacion del Yo desde una perspectiva fenomenologica-contextual. Se justifica dicho enfoque como una forma de resolucion de las metaforas que suelen utilizarse para entender la formacion de la ipseidad, en las que habitualmente se cae tanto en errores categoriales y de reificacion o directamente en argumentos aporeticos. No se reniega del concepto, dado el enorme reforzamiento recibido en los organismos humanos a contactar desde la infancia con las experiencias privadas y ese estar-en-contacto es precisamente la experiencia fenomenologica primaria del Yo. Se presenta un modelo explicativo genuinamente conductual, entendiendo el Yo como un epifenomeno social que requiere una conciencia basica pre-reflexiva en un contexto cultural determinado que le dara forma a traves de la conducta verbal prototipica en la interaccion humana. Por ultimo, se describen las distintas etapas del aprendizaje del Yo. Se enfatiza en la discusion la extraordinaria importancia de una comprension del Yo en terminos de perspectiva ya que permite entender de forma parsimoniosa las clasicas caracteristicas atribuidas al mismo, como constancia, atemporalidad, trascendencia e interioridad sin necesidad de elaborar constructos mentales. EnglishWe propose a review of the formation of the Self from a phenomenological-contextual perspective. This approach is justified as a way of solving the metaphors that are used to understand the formation of the Self, which usually commits either categorical and reification errors or directly aporetic arguments. The concept of the Self is not denied, given the huge reinforcement received by the human organism from infancy to tact with private experiences, and such being-in-contact is precisely the primary phenomenological experience of the Self. A genuinely behavioral explanatory model is presented, understanding the Self as a social epiphenomenon that requires a basic pre-reflective awareness in a particular cultural context that will shape it through prototypical verbal behavior in human interaction. Finally, the different stages of Self-learning are described. The discussion underlines the extraordinary importance of understanding the Self in terms of perspective, which leads to the parsimonious comprehension of the classic features attributed to the Self, such as constancy, timelessness, transcendence and interiority without elaborating mental constructs