Alf Nilsson

Homo Psychicus as Human and on Becoming a Person

Towards a theory of the human being between the analogue and the digital

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is about unifying, in one and the same theory, the human being, Homo psychicus, both as an affective/internal presentation being and an operative, cognitive being. In this way, we see two human abilities - on the one hand, Silvan Tomkins' comprehensive theories of our innate biological affects and, on the other hand, Jean Piaget's theories of Homo psychicus as an operative, cognitive being - in one theory. According to Piaget the basis for operations is to be found in our innate reflexes. Overarching perspectives of this derivation are found in development: evolutionary, phylogenetic, ontogenetic and epigenetic. The author's empirical research is directed towards development of a «percept-genetic» method called the Percept-genetic Object-Relation Test (PORT). This method is employed in the description and illustration of how Homo psychicus may become a person. Thus, this subject is discussed from an epigenetic and a clinical perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 874545
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 15mm x 150mm x 225mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781788745451
• ISBN-10: 1788745450
• Artikelnr.: 54445501

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS: Background, purposes and some unlocking keys - Towards an epistemology forming the background to further understanding of Homo psychicus - Two lines of development as the foundation for the origin of Homo psychicus - Operations in relationships to affects/internal presentations: a teleodynamic investigation - Homo psychicus: a brief comment on language - Psychopathology as viewed in epigenetical perspective - Return to the start: and the whole extension to Homo psychicus today.

Rezensionen

«Nilsson is standing on the shoulders of four giants - Charles Darwin, Silvan Tomkins, Sigmund Freud and Jean Piaget - as he takes the reader through the evolution, phylogenesis, ontogenesis, epigenesis and percept-genesis of the human being. Supported by some fascinating theories, his own emerging thoughts are original and elegant.» (Murti Maini)

«The author's exploration into the development and relationship between the cognitive and affective aspect of the human psyche is presented in a widely theoretical context, a valuable component to the other analyses of human development in our modern scientific community.» (Björn Wrangsjö)

«Nilsson's work on the Homo psychicus displays a new awareness of the dependence of human ontogenesis and phylogenesis upon psychological factors. An understanding of analogue emotions and the growing digitalization spans across various cultures to prepare them for surviving theemerging new world.» (Thomas Ohlsson)