Includes bibliographical references and index.

My search for heaven and hell -- Purposes and premises : tracing the trajectories of human experience -- The magic of metaphors : how our minds make the world -- Unpacking the "black box" of conscious interiority -- pt. I. Space : hollowing out the person. Envisioning the invisible : spatializing the soul -- Invoking introspectable worlds -- The collapse of premodern cosmology -- pt. II. Psyche : the origins of scientific psychology. The foundations of the modern study of mind -- The great cosmic split : dualism -- Reactions to the Cartesian split -- Early psychology : making visible the contents of the soul -- pt. III. Time : modern millenarianism and politics as "progress." Meta-framing time : the invention of history -- Liberating the psyche : the emerging faith in progress -- The history of humankind : climbing the ladder of civilization -- Envisaging the future as paradise -- pt. IV. Self : turning the world inside out. The changeable self through the centuries -- The narratized individual as social actor -- The self as mirror in historical perspective -- The birth of modern psychology -- Epilogue : visualizing new vistas of modernity and selfhood -- The therapeutic turn -- Self-idolatry : the dark side of the psychotherapeutic society -- Modern spatiality, the soul, and the psyche.

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