An experience-dependent self refers to the psychological and neurological concept that human identity, brain structures, and self-regulation skills are not fixed at birth. Instead, they are continuously shaped, built, and reorganized by individual life events, environmental interactions, and unique learning processes over time.
James Hillman’s archetypal psychology presents the psyche as fundamentally plural, or or of multiple minds. Human beings do not possess only one psychological voice, value system or centre of intelligence.
Objectivity, in this landscape, usually means not a “view from nowhere,” but “as independent of any one person’s quirks as we can practically make it.”
Listening to your body means paying attention to the signals your whole organism is sending, taking them seriously, and responding in a way that keeps you healthy and steady over time
