COLLECTION NAME:
Peter G. Ossorio Collection
Record
Collection Name:
Peter G. Ossorio Collection
Title:
Being Me / Being Myself
Title Type:
Proper Title
Name:
Ossorio, Peter G.
Resource Type:
Moving image
Genre:
color films (visual works)
Genre:
lectures
Date Created:
Undated
Language Term:
English
Extent:
1 videocassette (1 hour, 14 min., 14 sec.)
Form:
VHS
Abstract:
A recorded lecture of Peter Ossorio in which he discusses topics including self- knowledge, being a Knower versus being Known, Carl Rogers, the Observer and Observed, self-concept, relationships, status, the unthinkable, and grief all in the context of therapy and changing oneself.
Note:
00:00:00 An unidentified woman introduces the lecture topic as one that connects to the main theme, how to make robots. She then introduces Peter Ossorio. 00:00:28 Ossorio introduces the topic of self-knowledge and how to make robots more human-like through means of artificial intelligence (AI). 00:01:40 Ossorio begins a demonstration outlining a problem of self-knowledge highlighting the disproportionate relationship of a person being both a Knower and Known. Ossorio discusses how philosophers, to account for this inequality, created a Transcendental Knower or "the organism" as coined by Carl Rogers. 00:04:03 Ossorio discusses the framework of the Observer and Observed. Ossorio uses this framework to discusses an example: a picture of Winston Churchill as it related to heuristics. 00:07:27 Ossorio gives another example through the notion of the self. He highlights the concept that people are "irrationally biased in their own favor" through his example and by the Freudian Ego Defense Mechanism precedent. Ossorio continues to discuss theory about the self. 00:11:42 Ossorio discusses informal data regarding the self and answers to the questions "what kind of person are you?" and "who are you?". 00:18:05 Ossorio brings the lecture back to the main theme of self-knowledge and its connection to status in the 'real world'. Ossorio discusses how status affects relationships and roles. 00:22:21 Ossorio discusses identification via the self. 00:27:15 Ossorio discusses the notion of knowing the self. He brings up the topic of domains, relationships, possibilities, behaviors, and past and future history and their incompleteness. 00:31:22 Ossorio discusses the what’s implied when a person says "I know" and how it related to the Observer and Observed framework. He discusses how the clinical solution to wondering who one is to "outgrow" the question. 00:35:12 Ossorio discusses the consequences to the definition of these frameworks and how they affect relationships, status, and self-knowledge. 00:41:00 Ossorio discusses what conditions are necessary for self-knowledge to actually change through a variety of examples: "I just couldn't do it" and "I could never do that" versus trying despite that or doing the unthinkable. 00:50:28 Ossorio shifts the lecture to therapy and how it is an effective vehicle towards making people confront the unthinkable. He also discusses how those changes can be internalized as traumatic and the social factors that can influence how traumatic change can be. 00:55:48 Ossorio discusses change associated with grief. Ossorio stresses again that the thing it takes for the self-concept to change is the occurrence of the unthinkable. 00:56:58 Ossorio discusses where the self-concept comes from. 01:05:22 Ossorio ends his lectures and asks the audience for questions. They discuss doing the unthinkable in extraordinary circumstances and the effect or non-effect that has on the self. 01:06:50 An audience member asks about changing one’s self-concept. 01:09:26 An audience member asks about the Winston Churchill example. 01:10:48 An audience member asks about children and their character/self-concept. 01:12:29 An audience member asks about self-concept and the idea of doing something "my way." 01:13:10 An audience member discusses leaning and it's relationship to self-concept. 01:14:14 An audience member asks for a clarification on the self-concept. Ossorio makes comments regarding agency, awareness, and the universal in response. 01:16:10 An audience members ask for clarification about knowing oneself. 01:17:41 An audience member asks about people who don't know who they are as people who do not know what statuses they are fit to claim. 01:18:25 An audience member asks about consciousness. 01:19:42 An audience member asks about people who have experienced violent crime. 01:21:19 An audience member asks about cognitive behavioral therapy and its relationship to the topic of his lecture. 01:22:17 An audience member asks about the loss of self-concept. 01:23:20 An audience member asks about the difference between telling oneself something and having it said about oneself. 01:23:44 Ossorio ends the lecture. 01:24:14 End of recording.
Note Type:
Segment sequence
Subject Topic:
Psychology
Subject Topic:
Self-knowledge, Theory of
Subject Topic:
Interpersonal relations
Subject Topic:
Psychic trauma
Subject Name:
Rogers, Carl R. (Carl Ransom), 1902-1987
Subject Name:
Ossorio, Peter G.
Identifier:
U183071307051_narv_ossorioPeter_37-1_beingMeBeingMyself_a.mp4
Physical Location:
COU:3855 | Box: 37 | Tape: 01
Date Captured:
Spring, 2024
Internet Media Type:
video/mp4
Digital Origin:
reformatted digital
Access Condition:
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