A Psychohistory of Metaphors

Envisioning Time, Space, and Self through the Centuries

Brian J. McVeigh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

2016
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2028-7 (ISBN)

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A Psychohistory of Metaphors traces how, in response to historical change, metaphors have expanded our introspective capabilities. By illuminating how new experiences borrowed from visual and spatial perceptions have transformed cognition itself, unexpected linkages among notions of time, geography, and psyche are revealed.

How have figures of speech configured new concepts of time, space, and mind throughout history? Brian J. McVeigh answers this question in A Psychohistory of Metaphors: Envisioning Time, Space, and Self through the Centuries by exploring “meta-framing:” our ever-increasing capability to “step back” from the environment, search out its familiar features to explain the unfamiliar, and generate “as if” forms of knowledge and metaphors of location and vision. This book demonstrates how analogizing and abstracting have altered spatio-visual perceptions, expanding our introspective capabilities and allowing us to adapt to changing social circumstances.

Brian J. McVeigh holds a PhD from Princeton University and is now training to be a mental health counselor.

Foreword

Acknowledgments and Notes to Reader

Prologue - Explaining History's “Inward Turn”
– Chapter 1 - My Search for Heaven and Hell
– Chapter 2 - Purposes and Premises: Tracing the Trajectories of Human Experience
– Chapter 3 - The Magic of Metaphors: How Our Minds Make the World
– Chapter 4 - Unpacking the “Black Box” of Conscious Interiority

Part One - Space: Hollowing Out the Person
– Chapter 5 - Envisioning the Invisible: Spatializing the Soul
– Chapter 6 - Invoking Introspectable Worlds
– Chapter 7 - The Collapse of Premodern Cosmology

Part Two - Psyche: The Origins of Scientific Psychology
– Chapter 8 - The Foundations of the Modern Study of Mind
– Chapter 9 - The Great Cosmic Split: Dualism
– Chapter 10 - Reactions to the Cartesian Split
– Chapter 11 - Early Psychology: Making Visible the Contents of the Soul

Part Three - Time: Modern Millenarianism and Politics as “Progress”
– Chapter 12 - Meta-Framing Time: The Invention of History
– Chapter 13 - Liberating the Psyche:

Erscheinungsdatum	14.04.2016
Zusatzinfo	10 b/w photos; 1 tables;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 239 mm
Gewicht	526 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	1-4985-2028-6 / 1498520286
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-2028-7 / 9781498520287
Zustand	Neuware