UID:
almafu_9959237741402883
Umfang:
xiv, 253 p.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9786612097072
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9780262303286
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0262303280
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9781282097070
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1282097075
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9780262280044
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0262280043
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9780585450674
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0585450676
Inhalt:
The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works--how it turns "matter into imagination." In Imagination and the Meaningful Brain, psychoanalyst Arnold Modell claims that subjective human experience must be included in any scientific explanation of how the mind/brain works. Contrary to current attempts to describe mental functioning as a form of computation, his view is that the construction of meaning is not the same as information processing. The intrapsychic complexities of human psychology, as observed through introspection and empathic knowledge of other minds, must be added to the third-person perspective of cognitive psychology and neuroscience.Assuming that other mammals are conscious and conscious of their feelings, Modell emphasizes evolutionary continuities and discontinuities of emotion. The limbic system, the emotional brain, is of ancient origin, but only humans have the capacity for generative imagination. By means of metaphor, we are able to interpret, displace, and transform our feelings. To bolster his argument, Modell draws on a variety of disciplines--including psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology, neurobiology, evolutionary biology, linguistics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. Only by integrating the objectivity of neuroscience, the phenomenology of introspection, and the intersubjective knowledge of psychoanalysis, he claims, will we be able fully to understand how the mind works.
Anmerkung:
"A Bradford book."
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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Uncertain Steps toward a Biology of Meaning -- 2 Metaphor, Memory, and Unconscious Imagination -- 3 Imagination's Autonomy -- 4 The Corporeal Imagination -- 5 Intentionality and the Self -- 6 Directing the Imagination -- 7 The Uniqueness of Human Feelings -- 8 Feelings and Value -- 9 Imagining Other Minds -- 10 Mirror Neurons, Gestures, and the Origins of Metaphor -- 11 Experience and the Mind-Body Problem -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780262633437
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0262633434
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780262134255
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 026213425X
Sprache:
Englisch
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