From Sign to Symbol

From Sign to Symbol
Author: Joseph Newirth
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2018-03-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1498576850

In From Sign to Symbol: Transformational Processes in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Psychology, Joseph Newirth describes the evolution of the unconscious from the psychoanalytic concept that reflected Freud’s positivist focus on symptoms and repressed memories to the contemporary structure that uses symbols and metaphors to create meaning within intimate, intersubjective relationships. Newirth integrates psychoanalytic theory with cognitive, developmental, and neuropsychological theories, and he differentiates two broad therapeutic strategies: an asymmetrical strategy that utilizes the logic of consciousness and emphasizes the differentiation of person, place, time, and causality in the world of objects, and a symmetrical strategy that utilizes the logic of the unconscious in the world of emotional, intersubjective experience. He presents multiple approaches to the use of these symmetrical therapeutic strategies, including the use of humor, dreams, metaphors, and implicit procedural learning, in transforming concrete symptoms and signs into the symbolic organizations of meaning. Examples from both psychotherapeutic practice and supervision are presented to illustrate the development of the capacity for symbolic thought or mentalization.

From Signal to Symbol

From Signal to Symbol
Author: Ronald Planer
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0262045974

A novel account of the evolution of language and the cognitive capacities on which language depends. In From Signal to Symbol, Ronald Planer and Kim Sterelny propose a novel theory of language: that modern language is the product of a long series of increasingly rich protolanguages evolving over the last two million years. Arguing that language and cognition coevolved, they give a central role to archaeological evidence and attempt to infer cognitive capacities on the basis of that evidence, which they link in turn to communicative capacities. Countering other accounts, which move directly from archaeological traces to language, Planer and Sterelny show that rudimentary forms of many of the elements on which language depends can be found in the great apes and were part of the equipment of the earliest species in our lineage. After outlining the constraints a theory of the evolution of language should satisfy and filling in the details of their model, they take up the evolution of words, composite utterances, and hierarchical structure. They consider the transition from a predominantly gestural to a predominantly vocal form of language and discuss the economic and social factors that led to language. Finally, they evaluate their theory in terms of the constraints previously laid out.

From Interaction to Symbol

From Interaction to Symbol
Author: Piotr Sadowski
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027243441

These and many other questions are addressed in the book within the methodological framework of systems theory and evolutionary psychology."--BOOK JACKET.

From Ritual to Repertoire

From Ritual to Repertoire
Author: Arnold Miller
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 550
Release: 1989-08-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780471848974

Using a systems approach firmly grounded in cognitive development theory and findings, this book offers a new, well-researched method for intervening with severely disturbed children--autistic, brain-damaged, retarded, emotionally deprived, and developmentally delayed. This approach emphasizes building on the strengths of each child's coping mechanisms rather than on conventional behavior modification techniques, which the authors see as raising serious ethical questions. Their approach has been tried and tested in clinical practice and has demonstrated its efficacy. The book examines the formation of systems in normal and abnormal development and discusses specifics of assessment and intervention with disordered children.

From Observables to Unobservables in Science and Philosophy

From Observables to Unobservables in Science and Philosophy
Author: Richard J. Connell
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2000
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780761816645

From Observables to Unobservables in Science and Philosophy focuses on knowing unobservable real things or attributes by means of observing real things or attributes, a topic central to twentieth-century scientific philosophy. Engaging both current and perennial issues in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of nature and of science, Connell writes from a realist perspective. He adds a cogent, well written, and much needed voice to the current debate over foundationalism from the perspective of the undersubscribed quarter of empirical realism. Principal audiences for this volume will be scholars and graduate students in philosophy, working in the Aristotelian tradition.

Reading Riddles

Reading Riddles
Author: Brian Tucker
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2010-12-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611480299

Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud explores how the riddle becomes a figure for reading and writing in early German Romanticism and how this model then enables Sigmund Freud's approach to the psyche. It traces a migration of ideas from literature to psychoanalysis and argues that the relationship between them must be situated at the methodological level. Through readings of texts by August Wilhelm, Friedrich Schlegel, G.W.F. Hegel, and Ludwig Tieck Reading Riddles documents how the Romantics expand the field of poetic signification to include obscure, distorted signs and how they applied this rhetoric of obscurity to the self. The book argues that this model of self and signification plays a central role in the formulation of Freud's psychoanalytic theory. If the self is a riddle, as many in the nineteenth century claim, Freud takes the figure seriously and interprets the mind according to all the structures and techniques of that textual genre.

Supernatural Signs, Symbols, and Codes

Supernatural Signs, Symbols, and Codes
Author: Beryl Dhanjal
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1448860431

We see symbols and signs every day; on commercial products, in advertisements, in art, on the Internet, and on buildings. Many signs and symbols were produced out of the simple need for people, who may not have been able to read, to understand them. Symbols have grown into icons representing love, hate, happiness, nationality, and religion. This volume explores some of these signs and symbols, how they came to be, what they mean, and what they could mean in the future.

The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics

The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics
Author: Jeff Malpas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 778
Release: 2014-11-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317676645

Hermeneutics is a major theoretical and practical form of intellectual enquiry, central not only to philosophy but many other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. With phenomenology and existentialism, it is also one of the twentieth century’s most important philosophical movements and includes major thinkers such as Heidegger, Gadamer and Ricoeur. The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key philosophers, topics and themes in this exciting subject and is the first volume of its kind. Comprising over fifty chapters by a team of international contributors the Companion is divided into five parts: main figures in the hermeneutical tradition movement, including Heidegger, Gadamer and Ricoeur main topics in hermeneutics such as language, truth, relativism and history the engagement of hermeneutics with central disciplines such as literature, religion, race and gender, and art hermeneutics and world philosophies including Asian, Islamic and Judaic thought hermeneutic challenges and debates, such as critical theory, structuralism and phenomenology.

Treasure Hunting HandBook

Treasure Hunting HandBook
Author: Treasure Hunting HandBook
Publisher: cLs
Total Pages: 219
Release:
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

If you're into treasure hunting but don't know what to do, this book is for you. #Marking #Symbols #Lectures #Extras from every region in the world #Treasure #goldhunting