Being Doll

A Study of Youngness & Oldness at Interface
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4438-4243-3
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 108 Seiten

In this second volume, following Dolls & Clowns & Things, the author once again explores the symbolic relationship between the self and the object. This time, however, the possible fundamental role of cognitive consonance, characterized here as the ability of the mind to integrate opposing ideas into a single expanded understanding of Self, is studied in terms of how it might relate to the following three categories of intuitive experience. One, my physical object, in which consonance or “wholeness” expands one’s understanding of Self when ideas about “youngness” and “oldness” become integrated as part of episodic memories that involve an actual physical (toy) doll. Two, my objectified being, in which consonance takes place when, again, ideas about “youngness” and “oldness” become integrated through the metaphoric objectification of certain points located on the human female body. And three, in which consonance develops as “youngness” and “oldness” ideas become integrated through a doll as a work of art. Within the theoretical framework of each of these three categories, various psychological dynamics which encompass memory, metaphor, and neuroplasticity, are understood to be essential to the molding and shaping of one’s subjective experience of “doll”.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pavlik-Malone, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Über Autor(innen)

Pavlik-Malone, Lisa
Lisa Pavlik-Malone holds a PhD in Educational Psychology from Fordham University, New York, USA, with a specialization in cognition. Her doctoral work on the cognitive processes involved in imaginative thought has been published in the Journal of Creative Behavior, and she is the author of the book Dolls & Clowns & Things: Essays for a Symbolic Self (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011). She teaches Developmental Psychology and Educational Psychology at her local college.

Lisa Pavlik-Malone holds a PhD in Educational Psychology from Fordham University, New York, USA, with a specialization in cognition. Her doctoral work on the cognitive processes involved in imaginative thought has been published in the Journal of Creative Behavior, and she is the author of the book Dolls & Clowns & Things: Essays for a Symbolic Self (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011). She teaches Developmental Psychology and Educational Psychology at her local college.