Beschreibung:
The universal quest to create cosmologies - to comprehend the relationship between mind and world - is inevitably limited by the social, cultural and historical perspective of the observer, in this instance western psychoanalysis. In this book Michael Robbins attempts to transcend such contextual limitations by putting forward a primordial form of mental activity that co-exists alongside thought and is of equal importance in human affairs.
Preface. The Big Picture. Western Models of Primordial Mind: Freud and Klein. Western Models of Primordial Mind II: Jung, Bion, Matte-Blanco. Western Models of Primordial Mind III: Piaget, Werner, Attachment Theory and Implicit Knowledge. Primordial Mental Activity. Dreaming. The Primordial Mind in Everyday Life. The Relationship Between Mental Processes in Spiritual Cultures. The Mind of a Shaman. Shamanism and Psychosis. Special Sensitivity: Synesthesia and Lucid Dreaming. Creativity. Psychosis. Thoughtful Reflections of Psychotic Persons. Language, Thought and Communication. Neuroscience of Primordial Mind. Analogy and Transformation in Human Systems. Conclusion.