Metaphors of Mind in Fiction and Psychology
Metaphors of Mind in Fiction and Psychology

Author: Michael S. Kearns

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0813163358

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Curiosity about the human mind -- what it is and how it functions -- began long before modern psychology. But because the mind and its processes are so elusive, they could be described only by means of metaphor. Michael Kearns, in this prize-winning study, examines the development of metaphors of the mind in psychological writings from Hobbes through William James and in fiction from Defoe through Henry James. Throughout the eighteenth century and even into the early nineteenth, metaphors of the mind as a relatively simple entity, either mechanical or biological, dominated both those engaged in psychological theorizing and novelists ranging from Richardson and Smollett through Dickens and the Brontes. In the nineteenth century, such psychologists as Herbert Spencer and Alexander Bain conceived of the mind as a complex organism quite different from that embodied in earlier thinking, but their figurative language did not keep pace. The result was a tension between theoretical expression and actual discussion of mental phenomena.

Teachings from the Sacred Triangle, Volume 3
Teachings from the Sacred Triangle, Volume 3

Author: David K. Miller

Publisher: Light Technology Publishing

Published: 2012-05-21

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1622335155

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The knowledge and technology to proceed with holographic healing is hearby granted to each of you who reads these words. It is not necessary to travel to distant places. With the holographic technology and skills you have been taught, you will be able to project your energies in the most direct and transformative way throughout the Earth. I ask each of you to take that part of the Earth you are familiar with and know. When you interact with that part, you can affect the whole Earth. Whatever part of that whole that is distorted can be transformed into a fifth-dimensional holographic energy. --The Arcturians

The Powers of The Mind
The Powers of The Mind

Author: Swami Vivekananda

Publisher: editionNEXT.com

Published: 2015-12-09

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13:

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“The Powers Of The Mind” is a speech delivered at Los Angeles, California, on January 8, 1900 by Swami Vivekananda explained his thoughts on the Powers of the Mind. This book brings together that speech for followers everywhere in his exact words.

Inner Work
Inner Work

Author: Robert A. Johnson

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-11-03

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0061959618

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From Robert A. Johnson, the bestselling author of Transformation, Owning Your Own Shadow, and the groundbreaking works He, She, and We, comes a practical four-step approach to using dreams and the imagination for a journey of inner transformation. In Inner Work, the renowned Jungian analyst offers a powerful and direct way to approach the inner world of the unconscious, often resulting in a central transformative experience. A repackaged classic by a major name in the field, Robert Johnson’s Inner Work enables us to find extraordinary strengths and resources in the hidden depths of our own subconscious.

Advances in Linear Free Energy Relationships
Advances in Linear Free Energy Relationships

Author: N. Chapman

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 1461586607

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Louis P. Hammett Mitchill Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Columbia University My interest in linear free energy relationships began when, just out of graduate school, I read in 1924 the article by Bmnsted and Pedersen which for the first time reported the existence of such a relationship. That interest continues to be an active one and, to judge merely by the extensive biblio graphies contained in the present volume, it is widely shared. To my mind a particularly happy aspect of the existence of linear free energy relationships has been the proof it supplies that one need not suppose that the behavior of nature is hopelessly complicated merely because one cannot find a theoretical reason for supposing it to be otherwise. The effect of a substituent in an organic molecule on rate or equilibrium of reaction involves a fourfold difference between relatively large quantities, a situation which always makes for difficult theory. Yet systematic organic chemistry could hardly have existed were it not true that like changes in structure lead to like changes in reactivity. Linear free energy relationships constitute the quantitative specialisation of this fundamental principle, and they stand indeed more in the office of teacher to theory than in that of learner from it.

Elements of Criticism, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
Elements of Criticism, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Henry Home Kames

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-12-04

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13: 9781334519895

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Excerpt from Elements of Criticism, Vol. 1 After the utmolt efforts, we find it beyond Our power to conceive the avour ofa rofc to erdi in the mind: we are neceffarily led to conceive that pleafure as exilling in the nol'crils along With the imprefiion made by the rofo Upon that organ. And the fame will be the refult of ex periments with refpec't to every feeling of talie, touch, anddfmell. Touch affords the moft fatisfaetory Ccri ments. Were it not that the delufion is deteeted by phi lofophy, no perfon would hefitate to pronounce, that the pleafure arifing from touching a fmooth, foft, and velvet furface, has its exifience at the ends of the fingers, with. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."