The Phenomena of Awareness

Husserl, Cantor, Jung
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-68591-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 245 g

What is awareness? How is dreaming different from ordinary awareness? What does mathematics have to do with awareness? Are different kinds of awareness related?
“Awareness” is commonly spoken of as “mind, soul, spirit, consciousness, the unconscious, psyche, imagination, self, and other.” The Phenomena of Awareness is a study of awareness as it is directly experienced. From the start, Cecile T. Tougas engages the reader in reflective notice of awareness as it appears from moment to moment in a variety of ways. The book draws us in and asks us to focus on the flow of phenomena in living experience, not as a theoretical construct, nor an image, nor a biochemical product, but instead as phases, moments, or parts that cannot exist without one another. Tougas shows how these parts exist in mutual dependence as a continuum of awareness, as the flow of lived time, and how noticing time deepens psychological self-understanding and understanding of another.

The Phenomena of Awareness is divided into four parts:

• Seeking and Noticing Awareness
• Observing and Understanding the Flow of Phenomena
• Distinguishing Intentional Acts
• Work in Progress

Drawing on the work of E. Husserl, G. Cantor and C.G. Jung, this book is an original synthesis of phenomenology, mathematics and psychology that explores awareness and the concept of ‘transfinite number’. This book will be of interest to analytical psychologists, philosophers, mathematicians, feminist scholars, humanities teachers and students.

Cecile T. Tougas teaches Latin at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham. She taught philosophy at the University of Southern Maine and the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tougas, Cecile

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Philosophische Psychologie, Logotherapie, Existenzanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Mathematik, Philosophie der Physik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Philosophie der Mathematik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (C.G. Jung)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Seeking and noticing awareness; Chapter 1 Medieval Metaphysics; Chapter 2 The Equal; Chapter 3 Jung's “images” and Husserl's “phenomena”; Chapter 4 Edith Stein and Husserl in Göttingen; Chapter 5 Seeing the world as Husserl did; Chapter 6 World without soul; Chapter 7 Husserl, Jung, and the “unconscious”; Part 2 Observing and understanding the flow of phenomena; Chapter 8 Transfinite whole; Chapter 9 Transfinite number as limit and essence; Chapter 10 Subjectivity; Chapter 11 Double intenationality in time-consciousness; Part 3 Distinguishing intentional acts; Chapter 12 Memory and feeling; Chapter 13 Expectation and its double intentionality; Chapter 14 Double intentionality in dreaming; Chapter 15 Intentional activity as the work of spirit; Chapter 16 Nebulous knowing; Chapter 17 The Other in us; Part 4 Work in progress; Chapter 18 Analytical psychology; Chapter 19 Animus in a woman; Chapter 20 Child analysis and the dark mother;

Über Autor(innen)

Cecile T. Tougas teaches Latin at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham. She taught philosophy at the University of Southern Maine and the University of Massachusetts Lowell.