¶ … Authentic Self According to Charles Guignon in his book on Being Authentic what were the three crucial events in history that began to shape the formation of the worldview of self?

First of all the emerging Protestant Reformation created the modern conception of the individual by severing all commonly held community ties to priests and other intermediaries to the ears of God. Now, the soul's individualistic and 'inner' intentions were more important than the soul's social and outwardly directed works in the world. Secondly, the emerging Scientific Revolution created a new modern worldview of the self and the world as constituted of material objects and bodies states of mechanized causal interactions that could be quantified and controlled by inward thought, by the individual self. Finally, postmodern society sees society as an artificial human construction where all roles and activities of social life arbitrary and individually created. What are the...

The modern self was forced to (2) wear various socially constructed and determined false masks and engage in superficial social game-playing that made up outer social life in contrast to the self's real, psychic life of inner reflection. The modern self was thus (3) alienated and divided from his or her true self and from society as a result of this false and forced bifurcation of identity. The modern self, as a result of this psychic rupture of exteriority and interiority was constantly in a state of psychic (4) anxiety. And lastly, the modern self was (5) fundamentally disenchanted with the unauthentic nature of false society, which…