TY  - BOOK
AU  - McVeigh,Brian J.
TI  - A psychohistory of metaphors: envisioning time, space, and self throughout the centuries 
SN  - 9781498520287
AV  - BF467 .M4885 2016
U1  - 115 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Space and time
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Social history
KW  - Metaphor
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Metapher
KW  - gnd
KW  - Psycholinguistik
N1  - 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
ER  -