Act and Image

The Emergence of Symbolic Imagination
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-86268-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 491 g

How did humans develop the capacity for symbolic imagination?

In this ground-breaking book, Warren Colman provides a reformulation of archetypal symbols as emergent from humans’ embodied and affective engagement with their social and material environment. Beginning with the oldest known figurative image in the world, the 40,000-year-old Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel in Germany, he traces the emergence of symbolic imagination through the origins of language, the growth of human sociality and co-operation, and the creative use of material objects, from the earliest stone tools through the cave paintings and figures of Upper Paleolithic Europe and beyond. This leads to a consideration of how the imaginal world of the spirit may have come into being, not as separate from the material world but through active participation within a world alive with meaning.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Colman, Warren

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (C.G. Jung)
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements. Introduction. Prologue. The Archetypal Hypothesis. Expanding the Mind. From Ape to Human I. From Ape to Human II. Constitutive Symbols and the Imaginal Realm. The Emergence of the Spirit World. Two Kinds of Thinking. Participation Mystique Revisited.

Über Autor(innen)

Warren Colman is a training and supervising analyst at the Society of Analytical Psychology in London and a former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. He teaches, lectures, and supervises internationally and has published many articles on the theory and practice of couple psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and analytical psychology.