UID:
almahu_9949383657302882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780429261978
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0429261977
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9780429537530
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0429537530
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9780429552236
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0429552238
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9780429524066
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0429524064
Series Statement:
Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies
Content:
Imagination in the Western Psyche: From Ancient Greece to Modern Neuroscience offers a comprehensive treatment of the human imagination by integrating the rich discourse on imagination in the humanities with modern neuroscientific research. This book is the first to offer an integrated understanding of imagination from both a humanistic (i.e., historical, philosophical, cultural, depth psychological) and scientific perspective. The book presents neurobiological accounts that align with prominent theories in Jungian and archetypal psychology and offers a window into the many ways imagination can be understood. It elaborates on the discourse on imagination in Western civilization that goes back thousands of years. Chapters analyze how imagination has been considered throughout history and contrasts a modern neuroscientific approach that looks at imagination by studying its component parts without addressing the phenomenon in all its experiential richness and complexity. By bringing these two approaches together an account of the human imagination emerges that is grounded in scientific rigor without diminishing the fullness of human experience. This book will appeal to academics, researchers, and post-graduate students in the fields of analytical psychology, depth psychology, Jungian studies, and psychotherapy
Note:
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1: Chasing imagination; Defining imagination; Imagination and depth psychology; The great divide; Model agnosticism; Overview; Chapter 2: Measuring the imaginal; Scientific method; Science and scientism; Perils of reduction and promise of complexity; Phenomenology and neuroscience; Facing Proteus; Part II: Imagination as phenomenon; Chapter 3: A brief history of imagination: From prehistory to the Renaissance; Phantasies of Ancient Greece; The platonic imagination
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Signs of lifeChapter 5: Imaginal psychology; The birth of depth psychology: from Nietzsche to Freud; The Jungian imagination; From philosophy to psychology; Image as bridge to the unknown; Archetypes: collective primordial images; Active imagination; James Hillman: advocate for the imaginal; Henry Corbin and the Mundus imaginalis; The deliteralization of the psyche; Imagination of the soul; A personified cosmos; Conclusion; Part III: The neuroscience of imagination; Chapter 6: Sense and image; Sensation, perception, imagination; The visual system; Multisensory processing
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Is perception imagery?Mental images; Mental images and meaning; The evolutionary case for meaningful mental images; Image and emotion; Imagery, meaning, and memory; From virtual reality to Anima Mundi; Chapter 7: Time and story; The narrative dimension; The evolution of story; Theory of Mind: agency in a storied world; Self-stories, individual development, and healing; Imagining memory; The neurobiology of memory; Mental time travel; Convergence: the default mode network; Story tellers; Chapter 8: Creativity and dream; Creativity; Creative production; The creative unconscious
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Free association revisitedIncubation and insight; Dream; Continuity in dreaming and waking consciousness; Physiological origins of dreams; Dreaming and meaning; Lucidity: the paradox of dreaming awake; Concluding remarks on the creative unconscious; Part IV: The imagination of neuroscience; Chapter 9: Imagination in science; Types of imagination in science; Creative imagination in scientific method; The art of making models; The ontological imagination; Foregrounding the imaginal context; Ontological creativity; Chapter 10: Neuroscience as story and myth; Science and the bridge of fiction
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 0367205165
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367205164
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429261978
