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In my previous volume I began by citing Antonio Damasio’s arguments against the Cartesian ‘I think, therefore I am’ and the alternative formulation that he offered:
for us now, as we come into the world and develop, we still begin with being, and only later do we think. We are, and then we think, and we think only inasmuch as we are, since thinking is indeed caused by the structures and operations of being.1
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Antonio R. Damasio, Descartes’ Error (1996) p. 248.
Karl Miller, Doubles: Studies in Literary History (Oxford, 1985);
Jeremy Hawthorn, Multiple Personality and the Disintegration of Literary Character: From Oliver Goldsmith to Sylvia Plath (1983).
Morton Prince, The Dissociation of a Personality: A Biographical Study in Abnormal Psychology (1906).
C.H. Thigpen and H. Cleckley, The Three Faces of Eve (1957); cf. their paper ‘A Case of Multiple Personality’, Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, XLIX (1957).
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T.S. Eliot, ‘The Metaphysical Poets’ (1921), in Selected Essays (2nd edn., 1934) p. 288.
T.S. Eliot, ‘Milton II’ (1947), in On Poetry and Poets (1957) pp. 152–3.
T.S. Eliot, ‘John Dryden’ (1922), in Selected Essays, 314.
John Beer, Wordsworth in Time (1979) p. 31.
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Beer, J. (2003). Questioning Consciousness. In: Post-Romantic Consciousness. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403919311_1
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