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Book The Unconscious Mind

Download or read book The Unconscious Mind written by Alfred Taylor Schofield and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Unconscious without Freud

Download or read book The Unconscious without Freud written by Rosemarie Sponner Sand and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first ten years of his career in psychological medicine, Sigmund Freud espoused a theory of unconsciousness which predated his own. As Rosemarie Sand describes in The Unconscious without Freud, he would evolve this theory over the course of his career and eventually apply it to his own psychological practice. Once Freud's hypothesis of unconscious mental functioning was published, the same professionals who had valued the traditional concept turned against what they considered to be a catastrophic, logically indefensible revision. The scientific investigation of unconscious influences was retarded for decades as a war zone opened between implacable opponents and intransigent defenders of the Freudian concept of unconscious mind. In the din of this battle, the traditional theory, free of the features which Freud's foes could not accept, was forgotten. Sand argues that a return to this original theory, which psychotherapists and experimenters might both espouse, could contribute to a cessation of hostilities and lead to the peaceful development of a theory of the unconscious—one that is free from the stigma that is currently attached to Freudian theory.

Book Craving for Ecstasy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harvey B. Milkman
  • Publisher : Free Press
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Craving for Ecstasy written by Harvey B. Milkman and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Publisher-supplied data) Alcohol, tobacco, sex, food. . .escape the pleasure trap and regain control of your life! The chemistry and psychology of addiction are described with considerable insight. These authors know their stuff, and they make a compelling case. . . .All in all, Craving for Ecstasy is a challenging, well-considered analysis.?Los Angeles Times Milkman and Sunderwirth offer a new and different perspective from which to understand a very complex and confusing pattern of human behavior. Their ideas are vibrant, provocative, stimulating, and written for a public that is demanding a better explanation.?Howard J. Shaffer, director, Center for Addiction Studies, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and The Cambridge Hospital Addictive behavior goes far beyond the compulsive use of drugs and alcohol. It is possible to become addicted to what may seem a harmless pleasure such as sex, jogging, watching television, or eating. In this powerful book?written in easy-to-understand language?two scientific researchers, Harvey Milkman and Stanley Sunderwirth, explain the biology, chemistry, and psychology of the universal desire for pleasure and escape. For example, they reveal how the brain produces mind-altering substances and what the skydiver has in common with the heroin addict. But, most importantly, with the use of a self-assessment test and an invaluable guide for treatment, the authors show what steps you can take to regain control of your life.

Book Suicide and the Unconscious

Download or read book Suicide and the Unconscious written by Antoon A. Leenaars and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1996 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today there is a wealth of experience in the study of suicide from many diverse perspectives, including anthropology, criminology, epidemiology, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, and sociology. However, when unconscious processes are neglected, research fails to provide us with an adequate understanding of the wish to kill oneself.

Book Illustrated World

Download or read book Illustrated World written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Flight into The Unconscious

Download or read book The Flight into The Unconscious written by Wolfgang Giegerich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychological analysis usually sets its sights upon the patient or upon cultural phenomena such as myths, literature, or works of art. The essays in this volume, by contrast, have another addressee, another subject matter: psychology itself. Deeply informed by Jung’s insight regarding the discipline’s lack of an objective vantage point outside and beyond the psyche, their Jungian author again and again turns Jung’s contribution to psychology around upon itself in the spirit of an immanent critique. Cutting to the quick, the question is put: in its constitution as psychology is Jungian psychology up to the level of what its insight into psychology’s lack of an Archimedean point would require? Are the interpretations it gives of its various subject matters—alchemy, religion, the unconscious and the rest-matched by its interpretation of itself? Has its meeting itself in them had consequences for itself, consequences in terms of the fathoming of its own truth? Or clinging to the standpoint of empirical observer, did it ultimately demur with regards to the question of their truth and its own - this despite Jung’s having characterized his work as an opus divinum? Topics include Jung’s psychology project as a response to the condition of the world, the "smuggling" inherent in the logic of "the unconscious," the closure and setting free dialectic of alchemy and psychology, the blindness to logical form problematic, the faultiness of the opposition "Individual" and "Collective", Jung’s communion fiasco, his thinking the thought of not-thinking, the veracity of his Red Book, the disenchantment complex, and, as indicated in the title of this volume, Jung’s psychology project as a counter-speculative "flight into the unconscious."

Book Dancing with the Unconscious

Download or read book Dancing with the Unconscious written by Danielle Knafo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In writing and lecturing over the past two decades on the relationship between psychoanalysis and art, Danielle Knafo has demonstrated the many ways in which these two disciplines inform and illuminate each other. This book continues that discussion, emphasizing how the creative process in psychoanalysis and art utilizes the unconscious in a quest for transformation and healing. Part one of the book presents case studies to show how free association, transference, dream work, regression, altered states of consciousness, trauma, and solitude function as creative tools for analyst, patient, and artist. Knafo uses the metaphor of dance to describe therapeutic action, the back-and-forth movement between therapist and patient, past and present, containment and release, and conscious and unconscious thought. The analytic couple is both artist and medium, and the dance they do together is a dynamic representation of the boundless creativity of the unconscious mind. Part two of the book offers in-depth studies of several artists to illustrate how they employ various media for self-expression and self-creation. Knafo shows how artists, though mostly creating in solitude, are frequently engaged in significant relational proceses that attempt rapprochement with internalized objects and repair of psychic injury. Dancing with the Unconscious expands the theoretical dimension of psychoanalysis while offering the clinician ways to realize greater creativity in work with patients.

Book The Consciousness of Cats

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nigel J Borthwick
  • Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
  • Release : 2016-02-18
  • ISBN : 1784625183
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book The Consciousness of Cats written by Nigel J Borthwick and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the early nineties, Nigel J Borthwick's novel explores the intricacies of human nature. The story addresses big questions about the mysteries and nuances of life, especially the deeper aspects of the human soul and consciousness. It merges thought-provoking perceptions with philosophical concepts – expressed through the thoughts of the main character. Moreover, it enlightens the reader to the lesser known mental and behavioural challenges faced by those individuals who have acquired brain injury.

Book Drawing it Out

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher : Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780966001952
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Drawing it Out written by and published by Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. This book was released on 2001 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique text shows us that the path of self-understanding and higher consciousness may not be revealed through words but through images. The author has presented us with the images coming from the depths of the unconscious and has eloquently described their eventually integration into her conscious life through careful attention to their details. It is not only an important contribution to the psychology of the unconscious, but a fascinating personal chronicle.

Book Philosophy of the Unconscious

Download or read book Philosophy of the Unconscious written by Eduard von Hartmann and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V.1 The class of books to which the "Philosophy of the Unconscious" belongs is all but unrepresented in our literature, but the absence of similar home-productions can no longer be held to imply either an inability to comprehend their scope or an indifference to their results. To what shall we attribute the welcome accorded of late to certain reproductions and elucidations of the master-works of modern Transcendentalism, if not to the awakening of a long-repressed desire to re-examine the foundations of a spiritual fabric, for whose stability an instinctive confidence alone made answer? To many two attitudes of mind have become insupportable--that of total unconcern about fundamental truth, and that of unthinking acquiescence in the admission of merely juxtaposed and uncommunicating spheres of positive knowledge and impenetrable nescience. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved).

Book Decoding Jung s Metaphysics

Download or read book Decoding Jung s Metaphysics written by Bernardo Kastrup and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than an insightful psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung was the twentieth century's greatest articulator of the primacy of mind in nature, a view whose origins vanish behind the mists of time. Underlying Jung's extraordinary body of work, and providing a foundation for it, there is a broad and sophisticated system of metaphysical thought. This system, however, is only implied in Jung's writings, so as to shield his scientific persona from accusations of philosophical speculation. The present book scrutinizes Jung’s work to distil and reveal that extraordinary, hidden metaphysical treasure: for Jung, mind and world are one and the same entity; reality is fundamentally experiential, not material; the psyche builds and maintains its body, not the other way around; and the ultimate meaning of our sacrificial lives is to serve God by providing a reflecting mirror to God’s own instinctive mentation. Embodied in this compact volume is a journey of discovery through Jungian thoughtscapes never before revealed with the depth, force and scholarly rigor you are about to encounter.

Book Emile Durkheim and the Reformation of Sociology

Download or read book Emile Durkheim and the Reformation of Sociology written by Stjepan Mestrovic and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1993 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a new representation of Emile Durkheim, as the philosopher and moralist who wanted to renovate rationalism, challenge positivism, reform sociology, and extend Schopenhauer's philosophy to the new domain of sociology. Above all, it highlights Durkheim's vision of sociology as the 'science of morality' that would eventually replace moralities based on religion.

Book New Challenges to Faith

Download or read book New Challenges to Faith written by Sherwood Eddy and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Magazine Abstracts

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  • Author : United States. Office of War Information. Bureau of Intelligence
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1941-05-07
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Magazine Abstracts written by United States. Office of War Information. Bureau of Intelligence and published by . This book was released on 1941-05-07 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memory  Consciousness and Temporality

Download or read book Memory Consciousness and Temporality written by Gianfranco Dalla Barba and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory, Consciousness, and Temporality presents the argument that current memory theories are undermined by two false assumptions: the `memory trace paradox' and `the fallacy of the homunculus'. In these pages Gianfranco Dalla Barba introduces a hypothesis - the Memory, Consciousness, and Temporality (MCT) hypothesis - on the relationship between memory and consciousness that is not undermined by these assumptions and further demonstrates how MCT can account for a variety of memory disorders and phenomena. With a unique approach intended to conjugate phenomenological analysis and recent neuropsychological data, the author makes an important contribution to our understanding of the central issues in current cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience.

Book The Novels of Philippe Sollers

Download or read book The Novels of Philippe Sollers written by Malcolm Charles Pollard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is easy simply to attribute the high profile of Sollers, the numerous autobiographical details in his novels, and also the espousal of so many different views and causes, to egocentrism and opportunism. Alternatively, one could say that they are all significant elements in an ongoing enquiry into the role of fiction in a society where attitudes are often thought to be determined more by images than by the written word. Given Sollers's questioning of society's conventional images (as in Debord's notion of the 'spectacle'), his awareness of his own role in the media, and his interest in developing a discourse on the visual arts, how do such concerns come together to create new forms of fiction and a coherent aesthetics? These seemingly disparate questions are all in fact related to Sollers's desire to challenge the accepted parameters of representation by creating an alternative scene in the novel, a subject which forms the basis of this book.

Book Self representational Approaches to Consciousness

Download or read book Self representational Approaches to Consciousness written by Uriah Kriegel and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading theorists examine the self-representational theory of consciousness as an alternative to the two dominant reductive theories of consciousness, the representational theory of consciousness and the higher-order monitoring theory. In this pioneering collection of essays, leading theorists examine the self-representational theory of consciousness, which holds that consciousness always involves some form of self-awareness. The self-representational theory of consciousness stands as an alternative to the two dominant reductive theories of consciousness, the representational theory of consciousness (RTC) and the higher-order monitoring (HOM) theory, combining elements of both RTC and HOM theory in a novel fashion that may avoid the fundamental deficiencies of each. Although self-representationalist views have been common throughout the history of both Western and Eastern philosophy, they have been largely neglected in the recent literature on consciousness. This book approaches the self-representational theory from a range of perspectives, with contributions from scholars in analytic philosophy, phenomenology, and history of philosophy, as well as two longer essays by Antonio Damasio and David Rudrauf and Douglas Hofstadter. The book opens with six essays that argue broadly in favor of self-representationalist views, which are followed by five that argue broadly against them. Contributors next consider connections to such philosophical issues as the nature of propositional attitudes, knowledge, attention, and indexical reference. Finally, Damasio and Rudrauf link consciousness as lived with consciousness as described in neurobiological terms; and Hofstadter compares consciousness to the "strange loop" of mathematical self-reference brought to light by Gödel's incompleteness theorems. Contributors Andrew Brook, Peter Carruthers, Antonio Damasio, John J. Drummond, Jason Ford, Rocco J. Gennaro, George Graham, Christopher S. Hill, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Terry Horgan, Tomis Kapitan, Uriah Kriegel, Keith Lehrer, Joseph Levine, Robert W. Lurz, David Rudrauf, David Woodruff Smith, John Tienson, Robert Van Gulick, Kathleen Wider, Kenneth Williford, Dan Zahavi