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Self-consciousness (Awareness)

Here are entered works on the awareness that humans have of their own selves. Works on sensitivity about one's appearance, behavior, or other attributes and excessive concern for the impression one makes on others are entered under Self-consciousness (Sensitivity). Works on observation and recording of one's own behavior are entered under Self-monitoring.

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• Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature

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• Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), ed. by Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis (PDF at Ohio State)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Human and Machine Consciousness (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2018), by David Gamez (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Organic Creativity and the Physics Within (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2013), by Mea M. M. Lowcre, ed. by Johan Hoorn (Javascript-dependent PDF at benjamins.com)
• Unsnarling the World-Knot: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by David Ray Griffin (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Why We Are Free: Consciousness, Free Will, and Creativity in a Unified Scientific Worldview (2021), by David Layzer, ed. by Anthony Aguirre and Bob Doyle (PDF with commentary at informationphilosopher.com)
• Ultimate Computing: Biomolecular Consciousness and Nanotechnology (1987), by Stuart R. Hameroff (HTML and PDF with commentary at quantumconsciousness.org)
• The Cerebral Symphony: Seashore Reflections on the Structure of Consciousness, by William H. Calvin (HTML at williamcalvin.com)
• Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind (based on the 1901 edition), ed. by Richard Maurice Bucke (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind (Philadelphia: Innes and Sons, 1905), ed. by Richard Maurice Bucke
  • PDF at djm.cc
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Science of Consciousness, by Dr. Jagadishomritunjay (frame-dependent HTML at archive.org)
• States of Consciousness, by Charles T. Tart (HTML at druglibrary.org)
• Study in Consciousness: A Contribution to the Science of Psychology (second edition, 1915), by Annie Besant (HTML at anandgholap.net)
• Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, by Henri Bergson, trans. by Frank Lubecki Pogson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Conversations with Neil's Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought and Language, by William H. Calvin and George A. Ojemann (HTML at williamcalvin.com)
• Metaphysics: or, The Philosophy of Consciousness, Phenomenal and Real (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1860), by Henry Longueville Mansel (page images at Google)
• The Phenomenology of Mind (2 volumes; London: S. Sonnenschein and Co.; New York: Macmillan, 1910), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, trans. by J. B. Baillie
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Subject of Consciousness, by Cedric Oliver Evans (HTML at mentalstates.net)
• Tertium Organum, The Third Canon of Thought: A Key to the Enigmas of the World (second American edition; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922), by P. D. Uspenskii, trans. by Nicholas Bessaraboff and Claude Fayette Bragdon (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence, by William H. Calvin (HTML at williamcalvin.com)

• Foundation for a New Consciousness: An Essay on Art, Science and Religion, by John Caris (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Epic of Consciousness, by Swami Krishnananda (HTML at Divine Life Society)
• From Science to God: The Mystery of Consciousness and the Meaning of Light, by Peter Russell (HTML with commentary at peterrussell.com)

• Emotion, Intellect and Spirituality, by Annie Besant (HTML at anandgholap.net)

• Religion, Altered States Of Consciousness, and Social Change (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1973), by Erika Bourguignon (PDF at Ohio State)

• Religion, Altered States Of Consciousness, and Social Change (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1973), by Erika Bourguignon (PDF at Ohio State)

• Human and Machine Consciousness (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2018), by David Gamez (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Observations on Trance: or, Human Hybernation (London, J. Churchill; Edinburgh, A. and C. Black, 1850), by James Braid (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beyond Hypnosis (Whittier, CA: Independent Pub. Co., c1952), by Hugh Lacy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical Lessons in Hypnotism and Magnetism: Giving the Only Simple and Practical Course in Hypnotism and Vital Magnetism Which Starts the Student or Practitioner Out Upon a Plain, Common Sense Basis, Prepared Especially for Self-Instruction (Chicago: De Laurence Co., c1937), by L. W. De Laurence (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Directe Psychologische Experimentalmethode in Hypnotischen Bewusstseinzuständen: Erweiterte Darstellung eines auf dem III. Internationalen Psychologencongress zu München Gehaltenen Vortrags (in German; Leipzig: J. A. Barth, 1897), by Oskar Vogt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of Suggestive Therapeutics, Applied Hypnotism, Psychic Science: A Manual of Practical Psychotherapy, Designed Especially for the General Practitioner of Medicine and Surgery (third edition; St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Co., 1912), by Henry S. Munro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of Suggestive Therapeutics, Applied Hypnotism, Psychic Science: A Manual of Practical Psychotherapy, Designed Especially for the General Practitioner of Medicine, Surgery, and Dentistry (fourth edition; St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Co., 1917), by Henry S. Munro (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mesmerismus: oder, System der Wechselwirkungen, Theorie und Anwendung des thierischen Magnetismus als die allgemeine Heilkunde zur Erhaltung des Menschen (in German; Berlin: in der Nikolaischen Buchhandlung, 1814), by Franz Anton Mesmer, ed. by Karl Christian Wolfart
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Practical Lessons in Hypnotism: Containing Complete Instructions in the Development Practice of Hypnotic Power, Including Much Valuable Information in Regard to Menal Healing, Mind Reading, and Other Kindred Subjects (Chicago: Thompson and Thomas, c1901), by Wm. Wesley Cook (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Confessions of a Tobacco Addict (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962), by Ben Petmecky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hypnotic Poetry: A Study of Trance-Inducing Technique in Certain Poems, and Its Literary Significance (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930), by Edward Douglas Snyder, contrib. by James H. Leuba (page images at HathiTrust)
• Self-Suggestion and the New Huna Theory of Mesmerism and Hypnosis (ca. 1958), by Max Freedom Long (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Hypnotism and Spiritism: A Critical and Medical Study (translated from the second revised edition; New York et al.: Longmans, Green, 1907), by Giuseppe Lapponi, trans. by Agnes Mary Rowland Gibbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magic, Witchcraft, Animal Magnetism, Hypnotism and Electro-Biology: Being a Digest of the Latest Views of the Author on These Subjects (third edition; London: J. Churchill; Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1852), by James Braid (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mysteries of Hypnosis (Les Mystéres de l'Hypnose) (London: W. Rider and Son, 1922), by G. de Dubor, trans. by G. M. Hort
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Observations on Trance: or, Human Hybernation (London, J. Churchill; Edinburgh, A. and C. Black, 1850), by James Braid (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Art et l'Hypnose: Interprétation Plastique d'Oeuvres Littéraires et Musicales (second edition, in French; Geneva: Édition Atar; Paris: F. Alcan, n.d.), by Emile Magnin, contrib. by Théodore Flournoy, illust. by Frederic Boissonas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Psychography: A Treatise on One of the Objective Forms of Psychic or Spiritual Phenomena, by William Stainton Moses (PDF at meilach.com)
• The Gospel of Philip the Deacon (complete edition, 1932 (Smith died in 1949)), by Frederick Bligh Bond and Hester Travers Smith (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Bias, Belief, and Conviction in an Age of Fake Facts (London and New York: Routledge, c2023), ed. by Anke K. Finger and Manuela Wagner
  • multiple formats with commentary at taylorfrancis.com
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• Belief in God (second edition; Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1888), by Alfred Williams Momerie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Excellent Religion: An Essay on the Relations Existing Between Agnosticism, the Polar Theory of Being, and the Higher Theism (London: Watts and Co., ca. 1890), by George Chetwynd Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)
• On Causation, With a Chapter on Belief (London: Longman's Green and Co., 1916), by Charles Arthur Mercier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Psychology of Confidence: An Experimental Inquiry (Archives of Psychology #67, 1923), by William Clark Trow (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Class Counts (student edition, 2000), by Erik Olin Wright (PDF files at Wisconsin)

• Transparent Minds in Science Fiction: An Introduction to Accounts of Alien, AI and Post-Human Consciousness (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023), by Paul Matthews
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• Imagining Minds: The Neuro-Aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Kay Young (PDF at Ohio State)
• Staging Consciousness: Theater and the Materialization of Mind (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by William W. Demastes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Brain of Robert Frost: A Cognitive Approach to Literature (New Haven and London: Routledge, c1988), by Norman N. Holland (page images at Florida)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.