Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. ix, 233 pages; 23 cm

Subject

1. Metaphor > Psychological aspects
2. Social history > Psychological aspects
3. Metapher
4. Space and time > Psychological aspects
5. Psycholinguistik
6. Metaphor > Philosophy

Contents

1. My search for heaven and hell -- Purposes and premises : tracing the trajectories of human experience -- The magic of metaphors : how our minds make the world -- Unpacking the "black box" of conscious interiority -- pt. I. Space : hollowing out the person. Envisioning the invisible : spatializing the soul -- Invoking introspectable worlds -- The collapse of premodern cosmology -- pt. II. Psyche : the origins of scientific psychology. The foundations of the modern study of mind -- The great cosmic split : dualism -- Reactions to the Cartesian split -- Early psychology : making visible the contents of the soul -- pt. III. Time : modern millenarianism and politics as "progress." Meta-framing time : the invention of history -- Liberating the psyche : the emerging faith in progress -- The history of humankind : climbing the ladder of civilization -- Envisaging the future as paradise -- pt. IV. Self : turning the world inside out. The changeable self through the centuries -- The narratized individual as social actor -- The self as mirror in historical perspective -- The birth of modern psychology -- Epilogue : visualizing new vistas of modernity and selfhood -- The therapeutic turn -- Self-idolatry : the dark side of the psychotherapeutic society -- Modern spatiality, the soul, and the psyche.

Call number

1. JFE 18-5173

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. McVeigh, Brian J., author.

Title

1. A psychohistory of metaphors : envisioning time, space, and self throughout the centuries / Brian J. McVeigh.

Publisher

1. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2015051388

Other standard identifier

1. 40025990924

ISBN

1. 9781498520287 (cloth ; alk. paper)
2. 1498520286 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 18-5173