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Psychoanalytic and neuroscientific models investigating the mind-brain relationship include the study of the Self/other/world relationship. In its continuity-discontinuity, the Self represents the subjective glue that informs our existence; it is characterized by an «extended duration» in which the past persists in the present and influences the future. The Self is embedded in and aligned with its respective temporo-spatial environment and adapts to the world through this temporo-spatial alignment. Therefore, the Self is not encapsulated in the mind, nor is it based only on our body, but extends beyond the mind and body to include the world. Without this dynamic space-time construction, the Self would appear discontinuous and fragmented.
KEY WORDS: Dynamic Self, neurosciences, psychoanalysis, Self-Continuity, Self-Embodiment, Self-Other relationship.