Brian J. Mcveigh

A Psychohistory of Metaphors

Envisioning Time, Space, and Self through the Centuries

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781498520300
• ISBN-10: 1498520308
• Artikelnr.: 52423351

Autorenporträt

Brian J. McVeigh has an MA and a PhD in anthropology from Princeton University, as well as an MS in counseling. He is interested in how the human mind adapts, both through history and psychotherapeutically. Inspired by and using the theories of Julian Jaynes as a theoretical framework, he has published 16 books on the history of Japanese psychology, the origins of religions, the Bible, spirit possession, art and popular culture, linguistics, nationalism, and changing definitions of self, time, and space. He has lived and worked in Japan and China for many years, taught at the University of Arizona for ten years, and now works in private practice as a licensed mental health counselor.

Inhaltsangabe

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