Verlust des Ichs in der Moderne?

Notions of the self and its identity are subject to constant change. This volume looks at how self-image and religion is depicted in nineteenth century novels, tracing how concepts of the ego and religious self-images changed throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and continue to do so today. Substantialist ideas of the self (soul) or the unit or core of the individual (personality) are replaced by reflective conceptions and descriptions. Different I-concepts vie with one another in the reflective modern age where the ego has often already been declared dead and is subject to diverse metamorphoses.