The psychology of imagination : history, theory, and new research horizons

This book offers a new approach to imagination which brings its emotional, social, cultural, contextual and existential characteristics to the fore. Fantasy and imagination are understood as the human capacity to distance oneself from the here-and-now situation in order to return to it with new poss...

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Other Authors Wagoner, Brady, 1980- (Editor), Brescó de Luna, Ignacio (Editor), Awad, Sarah H. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2016]
SeriesNiels Bohr professorship lectures in cultural psychology.
Subjects
Imagination.
Psychology > General.
Experimental psychology.
Psychology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806609185
DOI10.1108/978-1-68123-711-4
Physical Description1 online resource (350 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Niels bohr lecture
  • Chapter 1. From fantasy to imagination: A cultural history and moral for psychology / Carlos Cornejo
  • Part II. Conceptual and historical analyses
  • Chapter 2. Use your imagination: The history of a higher mental function / Luca Tateo
  • Chapter 3. Reviving the logic of aesthetics: Poetry and music in cultural psychology / Sven Hroar Klempe and Olga V. Lehmann Oliveros
  • Chapter 4. Kant and goethe? The imaginative link between sensuality and concepts / Bo Christensen and Steen Brock
  • Chapter 5. The sinnlichkeit of panoramic experience / Jaan Valsiner
  • Part III. Theoretical approaches and developments
  • Chapter 6. Ruins and memorials: Imagining the past through material forms / Zack Beckstead
  • Chapter 7. Fantasy and imagination: From psychoanalysis to cultural psychology / Tania Zittoun
  • Chapter 8. Hope as fantasy: An existential phenomenology of hoping in light of parental illness / Ditte Alexandra Winther-Lindqvist
  • Chapter 9. From fantasy and imagination to creativity: Towards a 'psychology with soul' and 'psychology with others' / Vlad Glaveanu
  • Part IV. The scientific imagination in psychology
  • Chapter 10. The dynamics of 'necessity' shaping our imaginative lives: A pre-conceptual account of discriminative word usage / John Shotter
  • Chapter 11. Amerindian psychology: The cultural basis for general knowledge construction / Danilo Silva Guimarães
  • Chapter 12. Gaps in human knowledge: Highlighting the whole beyond our conceptual reach / Lucas Mazur
  • Chapter 13. Nature leaves no gaps: From scientifically dissected phenomena back to the whole / Meike Watzlawik
  • Part V. New research horizons
  • Chapter 14. "we are not free, admit it.. But we cling onto tomorrow": Imagination as a tool for coping in disempowering situations / Sarah H. Awad
  • Chapter 15. Feeling myself with nature: Reflections on picking flowers in Japan and Denmark / Rebekka Mai Eckerdal
  • Chapter 16. Russian revival of the st. George myth and its imagery: A study based on reconstructive picture interpretation and psychoanalysis / Stefan Hampl and Dominik Mihalits
  • Part VI. Concluding response
  • Chapter 17. Conclusion: The re-enchantment of psychology / Carlos Cornejo.

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