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    Reflexivity refers to consciousness about being conscious or thinking about thinking. This central idea explored in the essays is surrounded by confusion due to it being used across disciplines and in everyday language. The nature of reflexivity, thinking about thinking, generates heightened self-awareness, creative intensity as old habits are loosened, and a realization that we may not know what we are doing. While this experience can be exhilarating, frightening, or both, it prompts turning back to contemplate ourselves.

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    Reflexivity refers to consciousness about being conscious or thinking about thinking. This central idea explored in the essays is surrounded by confusion due to it being used across disciplines and in everyday language. The nature of reflexivity, thinking about thinking, generates heightened self-awareness, creative intensity as old habits are loosened, and a realization that we may not know what we are doing. While this experience can be exhilarating, frightening, or both, it prompts turning back to contemplate ourselves.

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    INTRODUCTION

    BARBARA MYERHOFF a n d JAY RUBY

    I. Reflexivity and Its Relatives

    T h e r e is a thick tangle of terms clustered around the central idea ex-


    plored in these essays: reflexivity. 1 Such confusion often accompanies
    a technical term used in many disciplines and in everyday language as
    well. In this case it is worsened by the very nature of the activity
    indicated by the term: consciousness about being conscious; thinking
    about thinking. Reflexivity generates heightened awareness and vertigo,
    the creative intensity of a possibility that loosens us from habit and
    custom and turns us back to contemplate ourselves just as we may be
    beginning to realize that we have no clear idea of what we are doing.
    T h e experience may be exhilarating or frightening or both, but it is

    1. Portions of this essay were published elsewhere (Ruby 1980).

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