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The wayward mind : an intimate history of the unconscious
- Title
- The wayward mind : an intimate history of the unconscious / Guy Claxton.
- Author
- Claxton, Guy.
- Publication
- London : Little, Brown, ©2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | BF315 .C53 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This book charts history's many different ways of explaining the unconscious mind, from ancient descriptions of the 'underworld' to theories of contemporary neuroscience. But whatever metaphors the story-telling impulse attaches to the phenomena of the unconscious, it is not really a single entity, but a jumbled collection of notions in urgent need of untangling. Guy Claxton's book does just this, taking in intellectual and cultural history, literature and spirituality, from the myths and beliefs of ancient Egypt and Homer's Greece to modern Polynesia."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. On making up your mind : what the unconscious is for -- 2. supernatural : magical landscapes and invisible puppeteers -- 3. invention of the soul : glimmerings of the unconscious -- 4. dumb menial : the unconscious refined, banished and bouncing back -- 5. 'inner Africa' : romanticism, mysticism and dreams -- 6. beast in the basement -- 7. intelligent incubator : cognition and creativity -- 8. Putting Humpty together again : neural networks to the rescue -- 9. devil incarnate : madness and the frontal lobes -- 10. sublime and the subliminal -- 11. Turning the mind on its head.
- ISBN
- 9780316724517
- 0316724513
- OCLC
- ocm60792428
- 60792428
- SCSB-1366015
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library