Journeys in the Mind

On the Origins and Structure of Subjectivity
2. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-29734-2
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 121 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 402 g

This book presents a systematic exploration of the subjective experience, keeping the investigation for the most part within a subjectivefirst person perspective through the use of “vignettes” as sources of data.  It also uses incorporates a ‘"third person” objective approach when that is relevant. The goal of Journeys inthe Mind is to capture and convey the operations of the mind: both the shared blueprints common to the elaboration of subjective knowledge as well as the  immense fishnet ofpersonalized variables that operate in each mental phase-space and act upon the blueprints to continuously recategorize them into sets of coherent, dynamic outcomes, or mental landscapes.  Dr. Sanguineti's meditative perspective holds the promise to enrich the way we understand the workings of the human mind. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sanguineti, Vincenzo

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.

Chapter I.    The Subjective Experience: a brief review. A definition of subjectivity – Subjectivity and mental research – Conclusions.

Chapter II.   Two mentalistic portraits. The book and its content – The author: a vastly condensed version  Conclusions.

Chapter III.  Workings of the mind: consciousness and the unconscious. A personal vignette: “finding the road” – An objective example: “the silicon pretender” – Conclusions.

Chapter IV.  The unfolding of Life: the genetic endowment. A personal vignette: “meet the gazelle” – An objective example: “preaching to the creatures” – Conclusions.

 Chapter V.   The evolutionary archetypes: values and needs. A personal vignette: “making a fire” – An objective example: “the Master” – Conclusions.

Chapter VI.  One of the line: values and needs. A personal vignette: “the shell, the urn” – An objective

example: “what my father told me” – Conclusions.

Chapter VII. Affective connectedness: the qualia web. Affectivity – Interactive reality – Intentionality –

A personal vignette: “I lost my hat” – An objective example: “the universe of objects” – Conclusions.

Chapter VIII. Talking to the stars: the quanta web. Personal reflections – An objective example: “the undiscovered element” – Conclusions.

Chapter IX.   Putting it all together. A personal vignette: ”the kitchen counter” – An objective example: “Psyche and Eros” – Conclusions.

Chapter X.   Some closing reflections.

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Über Autor(innen)

Vincenzo Sanguineti, MD, was born in Eritrea and lived there until completion of Medical School at the “Universita’ Degli Studi” in Milan, Italy. He then spent five years in Nigeria, where he conducted published field research in Tropical Medicine and directed a missionary hospital. He profited from the prolonged exposure to uncontaminated natural habitats and from the degrees of difference and similarity among different species and different human cultures, which enhanced his fascination for the interaction between the unique subjectivity of the self and the interactive processes stemming from the profound complexity of the individual and collective variables.  Currently, Dr. Sanguineti is in private practice in Philadelphia, where he is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical Center of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College.