A Psychohistory of Metaphors

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

Foreword

Acknowledgments and Notes to Reader

Prologue - 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 Interiority

Part 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 Cosmology

Part 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 Soul

Part 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 Paradise

Part 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 Psychology

Epilogue - 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 Psyche

Appendix A: How to Open the “Black Box”: Cultural Psychology

Appendix B: What Conscious Interiority Is Not

Appendix C: Spaces: Real and Imaginary

Appendix D: The Visible, Invisible, and Introspectable
References

Index

About the Author