Psychohistory of Metaphors (eBook)

Brian J. McVeigh holds a PhD from Princeton University and is now training to be a mental health counselor.

ForewordAcknowledgments and Notes to ReaderPrologue - Explaining History's “Inward Turn”– Chapter 1 - My Search for Heaven and Hell– Chapter 2 - Purposes and Premises: Tracing the Trajectories of Human Experience– Chapter 3 - The Magic of Metaphors: How Our Minds Make the World– Chapter 4 - Unpacking the “Black Box” of Conscious InteriorityPart One - Space: Hollowing Out the Person– Chapter 5 - Envisioning the Invisible: Spatializing the Soul– Chapter 6 - Invoking Introspectable Worlds– Chapter 7 - The Collapse of Premodern CosmologyPart Two - Psyche: The Origins of Scientific Psychology– Chapter 8 - The Foundations of the Modern Study of Mind– Chapter 9 - The Great Cosmic Split: Dualism– Chapter 10 - Reactions to the Cartesian Split– Chapter 11 - Early Psychology: Making Visible the Contents of the SoulPart Three - Time: Modern Millenarianism and Politics as “Progress”– Chapter 12 - Meta-Framing Time: The Invention of History– Chapter 13 - Liberating the Psyche: The Emerging Faith in Progress– Chapter 14 - The History of Humankind: Climbing the Ladder of Civilization– Chapter 15 - Envisaging the Future as ParadisePart Four - Self: Turning the World Inside Out– Chapter 16 - The Changeable Self through the Centuries– Chapter 17 - The Narratized Individual as Social Actor– Chapter 18 - The Self as Mirror in Historical Perspective– Chapter 19 - The Birth of Modern PsychologyEpilogue - Visualizing New Vistas of Modernity and Selfhood– Chapter 20 - The Therapeutic Turn– Chapter 21 - Self-Idolatry: The Dark Side of the Psychotherapeutic Society– Chapter 22 - Modern Spatiality, the Soul, and the PsycheAppendix A: How to Open the “Black Box”: Cultural PsychologyAppendix B: What Conscious Interiority Is NotAppendix C: Spaces: Real and ImaginaryAppendix D: The Visible, Invisible, and IntrospectableReferencesIndexAbout the Author