Metaphors in the History of Psychology

Metaphors in the History of Psychology
Author: David E. Leary
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1994-07-29
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780521421522

Arguing that psychologists and their predecessors have invariably relied on metaphors in articulation, the contributors to this volume offer a new "key" to understanding a critically important area of human knowledge by specifying the major metaphors.

Metaphors of Memory

Metaphors of Memory
Author: D. Draaisma
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2000-12-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521650243

First published in 2000, this book explores the metaphors used by philosophers and psychologists to understand memory over the centuries.

A Psychohistory of Metaphors

A Psychohistory of Metaphors
Author: Brian J. McVeigh
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2016-04-04
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1498520294

How have figures of speech configured new concepts of time, space, and mind throughout history? Brian J. McVeigh answers this question in A Psychohistory of Metaphors: Envisioning Time, Space, and Self through the Centuries by exploring “meta-framing:” our ever-increasing capability to “step back” from the environment, search out its familiar features to explain the unfamiliar, and generate “as if” forms of knowledge and metaphors of location and vision. This book demonstrates how analogizing and abstracting have altered spatio-visual perceptions, expanding our introspective capabilities and allowing us to adapt to changing social circumstances.

The Metaphor

The Metaphor
Author: Gertrude Buck
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1971
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

History, Metaphors, Fables

History, Metaphors, Fables
Author: Hans Blumenberg
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2020-06-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1501747991

History, Metaphors, and Fables collects the central writings by Hans Blumenberg and covers topics such as on the philosophy of language, metaphor theory, non-conceptuality, aesthetics, politics, and literary studies. This landmark volume demonstrates Blumenberg's intellectual breadth and gives an overview of his thematic and stylistic range over four decades. Blumenberg's early philosophy of technology becomes tangible, as does his critique of linguistic perfectibility and conceptual thought, his theory of history as successive concepts of reality", his anthropology, or his studies of literature. History, Metaphors, Fables allows readers to discover a master thinker whose role in the German intellectual post-war scene can hardly be overestimated.

Metaphors of Interrelatedness

Metaphors of Interrelatedness
Author: Linda E. Olds
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1992-10-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1438414986

Olds examines the role of metaphor and models in psychology, science, and religion and argues the case for systems theory as a contemporary unifying metaphor across domains, with particular emphasis on clarifying its potential for psychology.

Metaphors of Mind in Fiction and Psychology

Metaphors of Mind in Fiction and Psychology
Author: Michael S. Kearns
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2021-10-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813186277

Curiosity about the human mind—what it is and how it functions—began long before modern psychology. But because the mind and its processes are so elusive, they could be described only by means of metaphor. Michael Kearns, in this prize-winning study, examines the development of metaphors of the mind in psychological writings from Hobbes through William James and in fiction from Defoe through Henry James. Throughout the eighteenth century and even into the early nineteenth, metaphors of the mind as a relatively simple entity, either mechanical or biological, dominated both those engaged in psychological theorizing and novelists ranging from Richardson and Smollett through Dickens and the Brontes. In the nineteenth century, such psychologists as Herbert Spencer and Alexander Bain conceived of the mind as a complex organism quite different from that embodied in earlier thinking, but their figurative language did not keep pace. The result was a tension between theoretical expression and actual discussion of mental phenomena

The Metaphor a Study in the Psychology of Rhetoric

The Metaphor a Study in the Psychology of Rhetoric
Author: Gertrude Buck, PhD
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2015-08-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781297871955

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The Power of Metaphor

The Power of Metaphor
Author: Mark Jordan Landau
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2014
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781433815799

This book explores the possibility that metaphor is a cognitive tool that people routinely use to understand abstract concepts (such as morality) in terms of superficially dissimilar concepts that are relatively easier to comprehend (such as cleanliness).

Rediscovering the History of Psychology

Rediscovering the History of Psychology
Author: Adrian Brock
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2006-02-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 030648031X

For the last 25 years, Kurt Danziger's work has been at the center of developments in history and theory of psychology. This volume makes Danziger's work the focal point of a variety of contributions representing several active areas of research. Written by the leading figures in history and theory of psychology from North America, Europe and South Africa, including Danziger himself, it will serve as a point of departure for those who wish to acquaint themselves with some of the most important issues in this field.