Imagination in the Western Psyche : From Ancient Greece to Modern Neuroscience /: From Ancient Greece to Modern Neuroscience. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jonathan Erickson.
• Authors: Erickson, Jonathan
• Contents: PART1: INTRODUCTION 1: CHASING IMAGINATION Defining Imagination Imagination and Depth Psychology The Great Divide Model Agnosticism Overview 2 : MEASURING THE IMAGINAL Scientific Method Science and Scientism Perils of Reduction and Promise of Complexity Phenomenology and Neuroscience Facing Proteus PART 2: IMAGINATION AS PHENOMENON 3 : A BRIEF HISTORY OF IMAGINATION FROM PREHISTORY TO THE RENAISSANCE Phantasies of Ancient Greece The Platonic Imagination The Aristotelian Imagination The Greek Legacy The Judeo-Christian Imagination: From הַרַע to Imaginatio The Renaissance Precursors to the Renaissance Imagination Proteus in the Gardens of the World Soul 4 : IMAGINATION IN MODERNITY FROM ENLIGHTENMENT TO DISENCHANTMENT The Ascendance of Reason The Synthetic Imagination of Kant The Creative Imagination of the Romantics Roots of Romanticism The Romantic Imagination Imagination and Reason at the Abyss The Road to Disenchantment: Imagination in the 20th Century From Imagination to The Imaginary Deconstructing Imagination Signs of Life 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 3: THE NEUROSCIENCE OF IMAGINATION 6 : SENSE AND IMAGE Sensation, Perception, Imagination The Visual System Multisensory Processing 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 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 From Stories Brains to Story Tellers 8 : CREATIVITY AND DREAM Creativity Creative Production The Creative Unconscious Free Association Revisited Incubation 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 4: THE IMAGINATION OF NEUROSCIENCE 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 10 : NEUROSCIENCE AS STORY AND MYTH Science and the Bridge of Fiction Science Fictions in Public Discourse The Human Face of Neuroscience Myths of Scientific Purity and Power Social Considerations in the Production of Scientific Knowledge Myths and Metaphors of the Brain Myths and Mysteries of Consciousness 11 : CONCLUSION FACING PROTEUS Seeking Synthesis Concluding Remarks in Defense of Science Sitting with the Shapeshifter
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (270 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429537530; 0429537530
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