A Psychohistory of Metaphors
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2028-7 (ISBN)
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: The Emerging Faith in Progress
– Chapter 14 - The History of Humankind: Climbing the Ladder of Civilization
– Chapter 15 - Envisaging the Future as Paradise
Part Four - Self: Turning the World Inside Out
– Chapter 16 - The Changeable Self through the Centuries
– Chapter 17 - The Narratized Individual as Social Actor
– Chapter 18 - The Self as Mirror in Historical Perspective
– Chapter 19 - The Birth of Modern Psychology
Epilogue - Visualizing New Vistas of Modernity and Selfhood
– Chapter 20 - The Therapeutic Turn
– Chapter 21 - Self-Idolatry: The Dark Side of the Psychotherapeutic Society
– Chapter 22 - Modern Spatiality, the Soul, and the Psyche
Appendix A: How to Open the “Black Box”: Cultural Psychology
Appendix B: What Conscious Interiority Is Not
Appendix C: Spaces: Real and Imaginary
Appendix D: The Visible, Invisible, and Introspectable
References
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.04.2016 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| 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 | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4985-2028-6 / 1498520286 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-2028-7 / 9781498520287 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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