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1 online resource (333 pages) |
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Psychology and the Classics / Lauwers, Jeroen / Schwall, Hedwig / Opsomer, Jan -- 1. Embodied Cognition and the Ancient Mind -- 1. Fundamentals for a Cognitive Semantics of Latin: Image Schemas and Metaphor in the Meaning of the Roman Animus-concept / Short, William Michael -- 2 .Odyssey 20 and Cognitive Science: A Case Study / Privitera, Siobhan -- 3. Bodies of Knowledge: Metaphor and Mnemonic Practice in Ancient Historiography / Devereaux, Jennifer J. -- 4. Feeling Words: Embodied Metaphors in Seven Against Thebes / Angelopoulou, Afroditi -- 5 .The Affective Ancient Theatre, a Bio-cultural Cognitive Approach / Meineck, Peter -- 6. The Sensed Presence as an Analytical Tool in Historical Research / Herman, Gabriel -- 7 .Transforming Knowledge: Using Arts-based Activity to Explore Classics and Therapeutic Practice / Wardrop, Alex / Huntley, Georgie / Kilgallon, Silvie -- 2 .The Hermeneutics of Psychology -- 1 .Learned Helplessness, the Structure of the Telemachy and Odysseus' Return / Christensen, Joel -- 2. Anticipating Audiences: Hesiod's Works and Days and Cognitive Psychology / Canevaro, Lilah Grace -- 3 .Why Does Orestes Stay Mad? / Dobson, Marcia -- 4 .The Elegiac Revolution: Deleuze, Desire, and Propertius' Monobiblos / Khellaf, Kyle -- 5 .Staging Female Selves in Sapphic Poetry / Ladianou, Katerina -- 3 .Reviving Classical Ideas through the Centuries -- 1. Irony in Cicero's post reditum Speeches / Grillo, Luca -- 2. Psychoanalysis and the Rhetorical Tradition: Theory and Technique / Earlie, Paul -- 3. Thucydides, Groupthink, and the Sicilian Expedition Fiasco / Turner, Aaron -- 4. Mystic Initiation and the Near-Death Experience / Seaford, Richard -- 5 .Burton's Anatomy as Classical, and Present-Day, Mind Science / Radden, Jennifer -- 6. The Psychology of Psychotherapy: Ancient and Modern Perspectives / Gill, Christopher -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
While the field of classics has informed and influenced the early developments of the field of psychology, these two disciplines presently enjoy fewer fruitful cross-fertilizations than one would expect. This book shows how the study of classics can help psychologists anchor their scientific findings in a historical, literary and philosophical framework, while insights of contemporary psychology offer new hermeneutic methods and explanations to classicists. This book is the first to date to offer a wide-ranging overview of the possibilities of marrying contemporary trends in psychology and classical studies. Advocating a critical dialogue between both disciplines, it offers novel reflections on psychotherapy, ancient philosophy, social psychology, literature and its theory, historiography, psychoanalysis, tragedy, the philosophy of mind, linguistics and reception. With twenty contributions by specialists in different fields, it promotes the combination of classical and psychological perspectives, and demonstrates the methods and rewards of such an endeavour through concrete case studies. This pioneering book is thus intended for all readers who seek inspiration for their readings, research, or therapeutic practice. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Classical literature -- Psychological aspects.
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Classical literature -- Psychological aspects. |
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Classical literature. |
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Psychology and literature.
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Psychology and literature. |
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Psychology -- History.
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Psychology. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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| Added Author |
Lauwers, Jeroen, editor.
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Opsomer, Jan, editor.
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Schwall, Hedwig, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9783110480627 |
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Print version: 9783110478518 |
| ISBN |
3110482207 |
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9783110482201 (electronic book) |
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9783110478518 |
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311047851X |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9783110482201 |
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