Symbolic Transformation

Symbolic Transformation
Author: Brady Wagoner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2009-12-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1135150907

Brings together scholars in the social sciences from around the world, to address the question of how mind and culture are related through symbols

The Work of Culture

The Work of Culture
Author: Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1990-10-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0226615995

This volume is the product of two decades of field research by one of Sri Lanka's distinguished anthropological interpreters.

Transformation of the Psyche

Transformation of the Psyche
Author: Joseph L. Henderson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2004-06-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135444587

Written by Joseph L. Henderson, one of the first generation of Jungian analysts, and Dyane N. Sherwood, a practising analyst, this book is a striking and unique contribution to the resurgence of interest in alchemy for its way of representing the phenomenology of creative experience. Transformation of the Psyche is organized around 22 illuminated paintings from the early Renaissance alchemical manuscript the Splendor Solis, and is further illustrated by over 50 colour figures. The images of the Splendor Solis are possibly the most beautiful and evocative alchemical paintings to be found anywhere, and they are widely known to students of alchemy. Jung reproduced several Splendor Solis images in his works, yet prior to this book no one has explored the symbolism of the paintings as a series in relation to the process of depth psychological transformation. This book is the first scholarly study of the paintings in their entirety, and of the mythological and historical allusions contained within the images. Transformation of the Psyche does not simply explain or analyze the pictures, but invites the reader to participate in the creative and transforming process evoked by these images. Transformation of the Psyche is a truly unique book that will be of immense value and interest to analysts and psychotherapists, as well as scholars of mediaeval and renaissance intellectual history and students of spiritual disciplines.

Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 19

Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 19
Author: C. G. Jung
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1979
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780691098937

As a current record of all of C. G. Jung's publications in German and in English, this volume will replace the general bibliography published in 1979 as Volume 19 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung. In the form of a checklist, this new volume records through 1990 the initial publication of each original work by Jung, each translation into English, and all significant new editions, including paperbacks and publications in periodicals. The contents of the respective volumes of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung and the Gesammelte Werke (published in Switzerland) are listed in parallel to show the interrelation of the two editions. Jung's seminars are dealt with in detail. Where possible, information is provided about the origin of works that were first conceived as lectures. There are indexes of all publications, personal names, organizations and societies, and periodicals.

Metaphors in Mind

Metaphors in Mind
Author: James Lawley
Publisher: Crown House Pub Limited
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780953875108

Describing how to give individuals an opportunity to discover how their symbolic perceptions are organized, what needs to happen for these to change, and how they can develop as a result, this text includes three client transcripts.

Symbolic Exchange and Death

Symbolic Exchange and Death
Author: Jean Baudrillard
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2016-12-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1473998409

Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theorists. This major work occupies a central place in the rethinking of the humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism. It leads the reader on an exhilarating tour encompassing the end of Marxism, the enchantment of fashion, symbolism about sex and the body, and the relations between economic exchange and death. Most significantly, the book represents Baudrillard′s fullest elaboration of the concept of the three orders of the simulacra, defining the historical passage from production to reproduction to simulation. A classic in its field, Symbolic Exchange and Death is a key source for the redefinition of contemporary social thought. Baudrillard′s critical gaze appraises social theories as diverse as cybernetics, ethnography, psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism, communications theory and semiotics. This English translation begins with a new introductory essay.

A Self-regulated Learning Approach for Children with Learning/behavior Disorders

A Self-regulated Learning Approach for Children with Learning/behavior Disorders
Author: Joan Ann Benevento
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0398075360

This book is designed to be an intervention model based on the concepts of Piaget's study of constructivism. The application of this approach will help children with learning/behavioral disorders actively participate in a fuller integration of their own psychomotor, affective, and cognitive information processing skills and adaptation. The work is directed toward teaching children to acquire the basic skills necessary for living in a multicultural society, including academic, personal, interpersonal, communicative, and economic proficiency. Each chapter in this book offers a substantial overvi.

Advances in Artificial Intelligence - SBIA 2012

Advances in Artificial Intelligence - SBIA 2012
Author: Leliane N. Barros
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2012-10-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642344593

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, SBIA 2012, held in Curitiba, Brazil, in October 2012. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: knowledge representation, machine learning, machine learning and computer vision, agent-based and multi-agent systems, robotics and language, as well as constraints.

The Moon

The Moon
Author: Jules Cashford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2016-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781911122067

Engineering Intelligent Hybrid Multi-Agent Systems

Engineering Intelligent Hybrid Multi-Agent Systems
Author: Rajiv Khosla
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1461562236

Engineering Intelligent Hybrid Multi-Agent Systems is about building intelligent hybrid systems. Included is coverage of applications and design concepts related to fusion systems, transformation systems and combination systems. These applications are in areas involving hybrid configurations of knowledge-based systems, case-based reasoning, fuzzy systems, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, and in knowledge discovery and data mining. Through examples and applications a synergy of these subjects is demonstrated. The authors introduce a multi-agent architectural theory for engineering intelligent associative hybrid systems. The architectural theory is described at both the task structure level and the computational level. This problem-solving architecture is relevant for developing knowledge agents and information agents. An enterprise-wide system modeling framework is outlined to facilitate forward and backward integration of systems developed in the knowledge, information, and data engineering layers of an organization. In the modeling process, software engineering aspects like agent oriented analysis, design and reuse are developed and described. Engineering Intelligent Hybrid Multi-Agent Systems is the first book in the field to provide details of a multi-agent architecture for building intelligent hybrid systems.