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Contents:
I. Mysticism
Meaning of the Term, Mystical Doctrine of Knowledge, Origins of European Mysticism, Dionysius the Areopagite, Influence of Scotus Erigina, German, Flemish, and Spanish Mysticism, Alexandrian School, Third Kind of Knowledge as Agnosia, Identity of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, Knowledge as Love, Maeterlinck and the Knowledge of Other Souls, Attitude towards Woman, Quasi-Mysticism and Pseudo-Mysticism, Santa Teresa, Effects of Anesthetics, Mystic Experience as an Emotional State, Sexual Factor in Mystic Experience, Anti-Social Aspect, The Mystic an Intellectual Slacker, Fallacy of Ambiguous Middle Term
II. Freud and Psychoanalysis
Origin of Psychoanalysis, Program and Claims, Unconscious Mind the Essential Postulate, Repression and the Complex, Conflict, Sexual Origin of Complexes, Sex Desire in Infancy, Infantilism, Oedipus Complex, Electra Complex, Luther's Theory, Jung's Mother and Complex, Freudian Use of Term "Sexual," Fallacy of Secundum Quid, Wish Fulfillment, Causation of Dreams, Manifest Content, General Sex Symbols, Technique of Dream Interpretation, Artificial Dreams, Jung's Number Dream, Actual Symbolism in Dreams, Forgetting, and Various Other Effects of Complexes, Selective Nature of Psychoanalytic Interpretations, Similarity of Freudian and Spiritualistic Arguments, Suggested Extensions of Freudian "Explanations," The Mystical Foundations of Freudianism, Antagonism between Psychoanalysis and Science, Riklin's Analysis of Fairy Tales, Doctrine of the Unconscious as Refuge for Scientific Slackers, Involving Fallacy of Ambiguous Middle, Use of Fallacy Deliberate, Practical Results of Psychoanalysis, Janet's Opinion, Possibility of Cures by Building up Complexes,Evil Results where Cures Fail, General Method of Cure, Pornographic Aspect of Freudian Propaganda, Value of Repression, Method of Repressing Desires, Pathological Sex Activity as a Cause of Neuroses, Prostitution as a Factor
III. The Foundations of Scientific Psychology
Fundamental Points in Scientific Procedure, Empirical Basis and Working Hypotheses, Experimental Method, Scientific Proof, Anecdotal Method and Selective Reasoning, Exactness of Terms, Starting Point of Psychology, Epistemological Dualism, Unconscious Consciousness Impossible, Consciousness not a Stuff, Ambiguity of Term, Physiology and Psychology, Working Hypotheses of Psychology, Innate Ideas, Instinct and Volition, Biological Conditions of Consciousness, Reaction Arc Hypothesis, Reaction and Consciousness, Conditions of Thought, Emotion, Consciousness as Awareness of Real Objects, Historical Continuity of Psychology, Development of Perception, Drainage in Habit Formation, Imagination not Devolved in Perception, Association of Ideas, A Type of Habit Formation, Illustrations from Memorizing Words and Learning to Waltz, Integration and Attention, Neural Condition of Consciousness Synthetic, Habits of Habits, Application of the Reaction Hypothesis, The Nature of the Self, Persistence of Habits, Causal Basis of Conscious Actions, Relation of Psychology to Social Sciences; Psychology and Psychiatry, Sex Factor in Conscious Life, Pathological Sex Experiences, Memory and Modifications of Nervous System, Unconscious Mind a Fiction, Pseudo-psychologies, Unaccredited Psychologists, Scientific Attitude of Psychologists
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An excerpt from the PREFACE:
The past decade has witnessed a remarkable revival of popular interest in philosophical mysticism and in spiritualism. Along with this revival has gone a spread of the so-called "newer psychology" of Freud and his satellites, which, beginning in the medical field, now claims the whole arena of human activities. The spiritualistic developments have been, by various authors, attributed to the war; and perhaps the war, with its profound mental and spiritual upheavals, may have contributed to them. The simultaneous developments in the hoary cult of philosophical mysticism, and the newer cult of Freudianism nevertheless indicate that the movements have derived their impetus only in small part from the events of the last few years, but are the expressions of forces which have been much longer in their releasing, and depend on deeply implanted principles of human nature.
To show that it is no mere curious accident which leads booksellers to shelve together books on these three topics, is in part the purpose of the present volume. The fact that patrons who look over the stock on one of these subjects are apt to be interested in the others, has its foundation in the real unity of the three, which runs through their diversities. And all three involve an assault on the very life of the biological sciences; an assault which scientific psychology alone is capable of warding off....
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Contents:
I. Mysticism
Meaning of the Term, Mystical Doctrine of Knowledge, Origins of European Mysticism, Dionysius the Areopagite, Influence of Scotus Erigina, German, Flemish, and Spanish Mysticism, Alexandrian School, Third Kind of Knowledge as Agnosia, Identity of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, Knowledge as Love, Maeterlinck and the Knowledge of Other Souls, Attitude towards Woman, Quasi-Mysticism and Pseudo-Mysticism, Santa Teresa, Effects of Anesthetics, Mystic Experience as an Emotional State, Sexual Factor in Mystic Experience, Anti-Social Aspect, The Mystic an Intellectual Slacker, Fallacy of Ambiguous Middle Term
II. Freud and Psychoanalysis
Origin of Psychoanalysis, Program and Claims, Unconscious Mind the Essential Postulate, Repression and the Complex, Conflict, Sexual Origin of Complexes, Sex Desire in Infancy, Infantilism, Oedipus Complex, Electra Complex, Luther's Theory, Jung's Mother and Complex, Freudian Use of Term "Sexual," Fallacy of Secundum Quid, Wish Fulfillment, Causation of Dreams, Manifest Content, General Sex Symbols, Technique of Dream Interpretation, Artificial Dreams, Jung's Number Dream, Actual Symbolism in Dreams, Forgetting, and Various Other Effects of Complexes, Selective Nature of Psychoanalytic Interpretations, Similarity of Freudian and Spiritualistic Arguments, Suggested Extensions of Freudian "Explanations," The Mystical Foundations of Freudianism, Antagonism between Psychoanalysis and Science, Riklin's Analysis of Fairy Tales, Doctrine of the Unconscious as Refuge for Scientific Slackers, Involving Fallacy of Ambiguous Middle, Use of Fallacy Deliberate, Practical Results of Psychoanalysis, Janet's Opinion, Possibility of Cures by Building up Complexes,Evil Results where Cures Fail, General Method of Cure, Pornographic Aspect of Freudian Propaganda, Value of Repression, Method of Repressing Desires, Pathological Sex Activity as a Cause of Neuroses, Prostitution as a Factor
III. The Foundations of Scientific Psychology
Fundamental Points in Scientific Procedure, Empirical Basis and Working Hypotheses, Experimental Method, Scientific Proof, Anecdotal Method and Selective Reasoning, Exactness of Terms, Starting Point of Psychology, Epistemological Dualism, Unconscious Consciousness Impossible, Consciousness not a Stuff, Ambiguity of Term, Physiology and Psychology, Working Hypotheses of Psychology, Innate Ideas, Instinct and Volition, Biological Conditions of Consciousness, Reaction Arc Hypothesis, Reaction and Consciousness, Conditions of Thought, Emotion, Consciousness as Awareness of Real Objects, Historical Continuity of Psychology, Development of Perception, Drainage in Habit Formation, Imagination not Devolved in Perception, Association of Ideas, A Type of Habit Formation, Illustrations from Memorizing Words and Learning to Waltz, Integration and Attention, Neural Condition of Consciousness Synthetic, Habits of Habits, Application of the Reaction Hypothesis, The Nature of the Self, Persistence of Habits, Causal Basis of Conscious Actions, Relation of Psychology to Social Sciences; Psychology and Psychiatry, Sex Factor in Conscious Life, Pathological Sex Experiences, Memory and Modifications of Nervous System, Unconscious Mind a Fiction, Pseudo-psychologies, Unaccredited Psychologists, Scientific Attitude of Psychologists
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An excerpt from the PREFACE:
The past decade has witnessed a remarkable revival of popular interest in philosophical mysticism and in spiritualism. Along with this revival has gone a spread of the so-called "newer psychology" of Freud and his satellites, which, beginning in the medical field, now claims the whole arena of human activities. The spiritualistic developments have been, by various authors, attributed to the war; and perhaps the war, with its profound mental and spiritual upheavals, may have contributed to them. The simultaneous developments in the hoary cult of philosophical mysticism, and the newer cult of Freudianism nevertheless indicate that the movements have derived their impetus only in small part from the events of the last few years, but are the expressions of forces which have been much longer in their releasing, and depend on deeply implanted principles of human nature.
To show that it is no mere curious accident which leads booksellers to shelve together books on these three topics, is in part the purpose of the present volume. The fact that patrons who look over the stock on one of these subjects are apt to be interested in the others, has its foundation in the real unity of the three, which runs through their diversities. And all three involve an assault on the very life of the biological sciences; an assault which scientific psychology alone is capable of warding off....
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940012936035 |
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| Publisher: | OGB |
| Publication date: | 06/07/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 318 KB |
About the Author
Note about the author:
The death of Knight Dunlap at Columbia, South Carolina, on August 14, 1949, deprived psychology of another of its great figures. Dunlap will be remembered as a personality as well as for his contributions to the field of psychology. He was indeed an iconoclast, had a tremendous capacity and enthusiasm for work; it was impossible for those who came in contact with him to remain neutral about him. Only those who were close to him knew how his keen sense of humor pervaded both his social and professional activities. His vehement attacks on many psychological doctrines and theories were often motivated by his deep interest in those theories and their authors. He felt that one of the ways in which research work can be stimulated is to assume an opposite point of view. One must understand this characteristic of the man if one is to make a proper appraisal of his activities.
The death of Knight Dunlap at Columbia, South Carolina, on August 14, 1949, deprived psychology of another of its great figures. Dunlap will be remembered as a personality as well as for his contributions to the field of psychology. He was indeed an iconoclast, had a tremendous capacity and enthusiasm for work; it was impossible for those who came in contact with him to remain neutral about him. Only those who were close to him knew how his keen sense of humor pervaded both his social and professional activities. His vehement attacks on many psychological doctrines and theories were often motivated by his deep interest in those theories and their authors. He felt that one of the ways in which research work can be stimulated is to assume an opposite point of view. One must understand this characteristic of the man if one is to make a proper appraisal of his activities.
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