ABSTRACT
Todd Feinberg offers further neurological evidence of the importance of the right frontal cortical regions as playing a crucial role in the establishment of boundaries of the self. Computational neuroscience is offering some ways to think about the brain, the mind, and affect, which might aid our understandings about lived experience. I. McGilchrist gives a lengthy discussion of detailed aspects of left- and right-hemispheric functioning. He focuses on the two ways of viewing the world: the up-close meticulous examination of the left-brain functions and the more contextual and wider view offered by the right. He also repeatedly suggests that the depth of experience fostered by the right hemispheric functions has been eclipsed by the vividness of the front and centre focus on language, precision, and mastery, in which the left excels. Several authors express various viewpoints about right hemispheric function, but the addition of a psychoanalytic view of these issues is very informing.
