Giselle Manica

Symbolic Mental Representations in Arts and Mystical Experiences (eBook, PDF)

Primordial Mental Activity and Archetypal Constellations

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Produktbeschreibung

Symbolic Mental Representations in Arts and Mystical Experiences explains how the individual's conceptualization of reality is dependent on the development of their brain, body structure, and the experiences that are physiologically confronted, acted, or observed via learning and/or simulation, occurring in family or community settings.

The book offers support for Jean Knox's reinterpretation of Jung's archetypal hypothesis, exposing the fundamentality of the body - in its neurophysiological development, bodily-felt sensations, non-verbal interactions, affects, emotions, and actions - in the process of meaning-making. Using information from disciplines such as Affective Neuroscience, Embodied Cognition, Attachment Theory, and Cognitive Linguistics, it clarifies how the most refined experiences of symbolic imagination are rooted in somatopsychic patterns.

This book will be of great interest for academics and researchers in the fields of Analytical Psychology, Affective Neuroscience, Linguistics, Anthropology of Consciousness, Art-therapy, and Mystical Experiences, as well as Jungian and post-Jungian scholars, philosophers, and teachers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000075632
• Artikelnr.: 59436277

Autorenporträt

Giselle Manica is a clinical psychologist, a graduate of the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Psychology, with an MSc in Social Psychology from the same university, an MA in Mysticism and Religious Experiences, from the University of Kent/UK, and a PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies from the University of Essex/UK

Inhaltsangabe

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. 2. Exploring the origins of symbolic thinking: the
intelligibility of the sensing and feeling brain. 3. PMA (Primordial Mental
Activity): The affective-somatic unconscious. 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. 5. Affects, sounds, images, and actions: addressing the
developmental formation and activation of archetypes through the
consideration of image-schemas and PMA. 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. 7.
Proximities and distances between mental illness and mysticism. 8. Mystical
experiences of the Ayahuasca consumption - the Brazilian Santo Daime
doctrine and European neo-shamanism. 9. Witnessing PMA operations: the
activation of archetypes in [neo]shamanic practices. 10. Arts and
psychosis: Comprehending PMA expressions in their association. 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. 12.
Conclusions: Understanding affective, non-verbal matrices of the making of
meaning. 13. Further research.