Symbolic mental representations in arts and mystical experiences : primordial mental activity and archetypal constellations /: primordial mental activity and archetypal constellations. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Giselle Manica.
• Authors: Manica, Giselle
• Contents: List of figures Preface Acknowledgements and Credits Abbreviations Chapter 1 – Introduction to the understanding of archetypal constellations through the lens of Primordial Mental Activity Part I – How discussing the structure, affective charging, and functioning of the body within the occurrence of archetypal constellations can support the developmental view of archetypes Chapter 2 – Exploring the origins of symbolic thinking: the intelligibility of the sensing and feeling brain Chapter 3 – PMA (Primordial Mental Activity): The affective-somatic unconscious Chapter 4 – Archetypal imagery as mainly channelled by mental representations that mediate the here-now from partial simulations of the past, awakening or reliving the affectivity that marked it, and the background cognitive capacity that (by then) targeted its metabolisation Chapter 5 – Affects, sounds, images, and actions: addressing the developmental formation and activation of archetypes through the consideration of image-schemas and PMA Chapter 6 – The comparison of PMA to the fantasy-thinking mind Conclusion to Part I Part II – Impressions and expressions of the body’s mind in mystical experiences and Arts Chapter 7 – Proximities and distances between mental illness and mysticism Chapter 8 – Mystical experiences of the Ayahuasca consumption – the Brazilian Santo Daime doctrine and European neo-shamanism Chapter 9 – Witnessing PMA operations: the activation of archetypes in [neo]shamanic practices Chapter 10 – Arts and psychosis: Comprehending PMA expressions in their association Chapter 11 – Interpreting PMA in artistic creations: primary metaphors on canvases Conclusion to Part II Part III – Affects, image schematic compounds, and patterns of behaviour – Links between body, concept, and culture Chapter 12 – Conclusions: Understanding affective, non-verbal matrices of the making of meaning Chapter 13 – Further researchIndex
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 153.32; Imagery (Psychology); Consciousness; Meaning (Psychology); Jungian psychology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000075694; 9781000075632; 9781000075663; 9781003008651
• Related ISBNs: 9780367442736
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