Imagination And Its Pathologies

Author : James Phillips
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262162142
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagination and Its Pathologies written by James Phillips and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madness has been viewed as a faulty mix of ideas by a deranged and violent imagination. This study shows that the relation of the imagination to pathological phenomena is as diverse and complex as the human condition. The imagination has the power not only to react to the world but to recreate it.

Author : Yasmin Annabel Haskell
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503527963
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period written by Yasmin Annabel Haskell and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The early modern period was arguably the greatest 'age of the imagination' in Europe, and certainly the period in which the powers attributed to that faculty had the greatest consequences - both in theory and in ordinary people's lives. Theologians and physicians debated the reality of witchcraft (no simple battle between Religion and Science, as believers and doubters could be found on both sides); the existence and pathology of werewolves and vampires; the role of the imagination in influencing the unborn child and in causing disease even in remote others. The essays in this volume, by established and emerging scholars from diverse intellectual and cultural traditions, explore Latin and vernacular, philosophical, medical, poetic, dramatic, epistolary, and juridical sourcesto expose the tangled conceptual roots of our modern aff ective, anxiety and somatoform disorders. (some of the content)"--OCLC.

Author : Yasmin Haskell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782503557823
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period written by Yasmin Haskell and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Nitsche
Publisher : Verlag Traugott Bautz
ISBN 13 : 395948660X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Image and Imagination in the Phenomenology of Religious Experience written by Martin Nitsche and published by Verlag Traugott Bautz. This book was released on with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Graham
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262071592
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Psychopathology written by George Graham and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A benchmark volume for an emerging field where mental disorders serve as the springboard for philosophical insights.

Author : John 1740-1827 Haygarth
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019699461
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of the Imagination, as a Cause and as a Cure of Disorders of the Body; Exemplified by Fictitious Tractors, and Epidemical Convulsions. Read to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Bath written by John 1740-1827 Haygarth and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating historical document, this book offers a glimpse into the early days of medical research, exploring the relationship between the mind and the body and offering early insights into the psychological and social determinants of health and illness. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Suparna Roychoudhury
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501726579
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phantasmatic Shakespeare written by Suparna Roychoudhury and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representations of the mind have a central place in Shakespeare’s artistic imagination, as we see in Bottom struggling to articulate his dream, Macbeth reaching for a dagger that is not there, and Prospero humbling his enemies with spectacular illusions. Phantasmatic Shakespeare examines the intersection between early modern literature and early modern understandings of the mind’s ability to perceive and imagine. Suparna Roychoudhury argues that Shakespeare’s portrayal of the imagination participates in sixteenth-century psychological discourse and reflects also how fields of anatomy, medicine, mathematics, and natural history jolted and reshaped conceptions of mentality. Although the new sciences did not displace the older psychology of phantasms, they inflected how Renaissance natural philosophers and physicians thought and wrote about the brain’s image-making faculty. The many hallucinations, illusions, and dreams scattered throughout Shakespeare’s works exploit this epistemological ferment, deriving their complexity from the ambiguities raised by early modern science. Phantasmatic Shakespeare considers aspects of imagination that were destabilized during Shakespeare’s period—its place in the brain; its legitimacy as a form of knowledge; its pathologies; its relation to matter, light, and nature—reading these in concert with canonical works such as King Lear, Macbeth, and The Tempest. Shakespeare, Roychoudhury shows, was influenced by paradigmatic epistemic shifts of his time, and he in turn demonstrated how the mysteries of cognition could be the subject of powerful art.

Author : Talia Morag
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131722048X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason written by Talia Morag and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emotions pose many philosophical questions. We don't choose them; they come over us spontaneously. Sometimes emotions seem to get it wrong: we experience wrongdoing but do not feel anger, feel fear but recognise there is no danger. Yet often we expect emotions to be reasonable, intelligible and appropriate responses to certain situations. How do we explain these apparent contradictions? Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason presents a bold new picture of the emotions that challenges prevailing philosophical orthodoxy. Talia Morag argues that too much emphasis has been placed on the "reasonableness" of emotions and far too little on two neglected areas: the imagination and the unconscious. She uses these to propose a new philosophical and psychoanalytic conception of the emotions that challenges the perceived rationality of emotions; views the emotions as fundamental to determining one's self-image; and bases therapy on the ability to "listen" to one’s emotional episode as it occurs. Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason is one of the first books to connect philosophical research on the emotions to psychoanalysis. It will be essential reading for those studying ethics, the emotions, moral psychology and philosophy of psychology as well as those interested in psychoanalysis.

Author : Richard L. Kradin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415877504
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pathologies of the Mind/body Interface written by Richard L. Kradin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike other texts on the subject, this book aims to provide a well-integrated approach to the diagnosis and treatment of the pervasive effects of the mind/body splitting that lead to somatoform disorders.

Author : Anna Abraham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108659292
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination written by Anna Abraham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human imagination manifests in countless different forms. We imagine the possible and the impossible. How do we do this so effortlessly? Why did the capacity for imagination evolve and manifest with undeniably manifold complexity uniquely in human beings? This handbook reflects on such questions by collecting perspectives on imagination from leading experts. It showcases a rich and detailed analysis on how the imagination is understood across several disciplines of study, including anthropology, archaeology, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and the arts. An integrated theoretical-empirical-applied picture of the field is presented, which stands to inform researchers, students, and practitioners about the issues of relevance across the board when considering the imagination. With each chapter, the nature of human imagination is examined – what it entails, how it evolved, and why it singularly defines us as a species.