ABSTRACT
Symbolic Mental Representations in Arts and Mystical Experiences explains how the individual’s conceptualization of reality is dependent on the development of their brain, body structure, and the experiences that are physiologically confronted, acted, or observed via learning and/or simulation, occurring in family or community settings.
The book offers support for Jean Knox’s reinterpretation of Jung's archetypal hypothesis, exposing the fundamentality of the body – in its neurophysiological development, bodily-felt sensations, non-verbal interactions, affects, emotions, and actions – in the process of meaning-making. Using information from disciplines such as Affective Neuroscience, Embodied Cognition, Attachment Theory, and Cognitive Linguistics, it clarifies how the most refined experiences of symbolic imagination are rooted in somatopsychic patterns.
This book will be of great interest for academics and researchers in the fields of Analytical Psychology, Affective Neuroscience, Linguistics, Anthropology of Consciousness, Art-therapy, and Mystical Experiences, as well as Jungian and post-Jungian scholars, philosophers, and teachers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|71 pages
How discussing the structure, affective charging, and functioning of the body within the occurrence of archetypal constellations can support the developmental view of archetypes
chapter Chapter 2|11 pages
Exploring the origins of symbolic thinking
chapter Chapter 5|16 pages
Affects, sounds, images, and actions
part II|125 pages
Impressions and expressions of the body’s mind in mystical experiences and arts
chapter Chapter 9|28 pages
Witnessing PMA operations
part III|15 pages
Affects, image schematic compounds, and patterns of behaviour – links between body, concept, and culture