Fisher Self, Logic, and Figurative Thinking

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-51866-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Fisher, Harwood

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction: Major Terms, Their Classification, and Their Relation to the Book's Objective
1. The Problem of Analogous Forms
2. Natural Logic, Categories, and the Individual
3. Shift to Individual Categories, Dynamics, and a Psychological Look at Identity
4. Form Versus Function
5. What Is the Difference Between the Logic Governing a Figure of Speech and the Logic That Is Immature or Unconscious?
6. What Are the Role and Function of the Self Vis-à-vis Consciousness?
7. Development in the Logic from Immature to Mature Modes
8. Pathological and Defensive Logical Forms
9. The "I," Identity, and the Part-Whole Resolutions
10. The "I," Entropy, and the Trope
Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Harwood Fisher is professor emeritus, City College of the City University of New York. His writing focuses on how the individual originates ideas and the self's subjective experiences as a dynamic logic of thinking. His books include Language and Logic in Personality and Society and The Subjective Self: A Portrait Within Logical Space.