{"id":2126,"date":"2014-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2023\/09\/06\/can-we-ever-truly-escape-our-past-or-is-it-a-precondition-for-selfhood\/"},"modified":"2014-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"can-we-ever-truly-escape-our-past-or-is-it-a-precondition-for-selfhood-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2014\/01\/12\/can-we-ever-truly-escape-our-past-or-is-it-a-precondition-for-selfhood-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Ever Truly Escape Our Past Or Is it a Precondition for Selfhood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of past is intimately connected to our perceptions of identity and the question of whether we can ever escape this often intrusive and suffocating hold on our person is central to my thesis of whether or not the past of an individual defines who they are and who they will become. <\/p>\n<p>Object:  Fitzgerald\u2019s novel, The Great Gatsby will be applied to both psychology and philosophy. <\/p>\n<p>Beginning with Psychology, specifically the work of Sigmund Freud to show how our identity is determined. <\/p>\n<p>Turning to philosophy with Jean Paul Sartre, exploring his views on freedom which oppose those of Freud. <\/p>\n<p>Finally Friedrich Nietzsche\u2019s work on \u2018becoming\u2019 and \u2018overcoming\u2019, discussing the ability to overcome our pasts and celebrate them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caitlin Naylor, 2014, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,22,123],"tags":[32,40,126],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-201","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-freud","tag-sartre","tag-self"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}