Wagoner / Brady / Ignacio Psychology of Imagination

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-68123-711-4
Verlag: Information Age Publishing
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E-Book, Englisch, 349 Seiten

This book offers a new approach to imagination which brings its emotional, social, cultural, contextual and existential characteristics to the fore. Fantasy and imagination are understood as the human capacity to distance oneself from the here?and?now situation in order to return to it with new possibilities. To do this we use social?cultural means (e.g. language, stories, art, images, etc.) to conceive of imaginary scenarios, some of which may become real.

Imagination is involved in every situation of our lives, though to different degrees. Sometimes this process can lead to concrete products (e.g., artistic works) that can be picked up and used by others for the purposes of their imagining. Imagination is not seen here as an isolated cognitive faculty but as the means by which people anticipate and constructively move towards an indeterminate future. It is in this process of living forward with the help of imagination that novelty appears and social change becomes possible.

This book offers a conceptual history of imagination, an array of theoretical approaches, imagination’s use in psychologist’s thinking and a number of new research areas. Its aim is to offer a re?enchantment of the concept of imagination and the discipline of psychology more generally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wagoner, Brady

Wagoner,

Brady,

Ignacio,

Awad,

H., Sarah

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;The Psychology of Imagination;2
3;History, Theory, and New Research Horizons;2
3.1;A Volume in Niels Bohr Professorship Lectures in Cultural Psychology;2
3.2;Series Editors:;2
3.3;Brady Wagoner, Aalborg University Nandita Chaudhary, University of Delhi Pernille Hviid, University of Copenhagen;2
4;CONTENTS;6
4.1;PART I: NIELS BOHR LECTURE;6
4.1.1;1. From Fantasy to Imagination: A Cultural History and Moral for Psychology;6
4.2;PART II: CONCEPTUAL AND HISTORICAL ANALYSES;6
4.2.1;2. Use Your Imagination: The History of a Higher Mental Function;6
4.2.2;3. Reviving the Logic of Aesthetics: Poetry and Music in Cultural Psychology;6
4.2.3;4. Kant and Goethe? The Connection Between Sensuality and Concepts;6
4.2.4;5. The Sinnlichkeit of Panoramic Experience;6
4.3;PART III: THEORETICAL APPROACHES AND DEVELOPMENTS;7
4.3.1;6. Ruins and Memorials: Imagining the Past Through Material Forms;7
4.3.2;7. Fantasy and Imagination: From Psychoanalysis to Cultural Psychology;7
4.3.3;8. Hope as Fantasy: An Existential Phenomenology of Hoping in Light of Parental Illness;7
4.3.4;9. From Fantasy and Imagination to Creativity: Toward a “Psychology With Soul” and “Psychology With Others”;7
4.4;PART IV: THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION IN PSYCHOLOGY;7
4.4.1;10. The Dynamics of “Necessity” Shaping Our Imaginative Lives: A Preconceptual Account of Discriminative Word Usage;7
4.4.2;11. Amerindian Psychology: The Cultural Basis for General Knowledge Construction;7
4.4.3;12. Gaps in Human Knowledge: Highlighting the Whole Beyond Our Conceptual Reach;7
4.4.4;13. Nature Leaves No Gaps: From Scientifically Dissected Phenomena Back to the Whole;7
4.5;PART V: NEW RESEARCH HORIZONS;7
4.5.1;14. “We Are Not Free, Admit It … But We Cling Onto Tomorrow”: Imagination as a Tool for Coping in Disempowering Situations;7
4.5.2;15. Feeling Myself With Nature: Reflections on Picking Flowers in Japan and Denmark;8
4.5.3;16. Russian Revival of the St. George Myth and Its Imagery: A Study Based on Reconstructive Picture Interpretation and Psychoanalysis;8
4.6;PART VI: CONCLUDING RESPONSE;8
4.6.1;17. Conclusion: The Reenchantment of Psychology;8
4.7;Niels Bohr Professorship Lectures in Cultural Psychology;3
4.8;The Psychology of Imagination;4
4.9;History, Theory, and New Research Horizons;4
4.9.1;Edited by;4
4.9.2;Brady Wagoner, Ignacio Brescó de Luna, and Sarah H. Awad Aalborg University;4
4.9.2.1;Information Age Publishing, Inc.;4
4.9.2.2;Introduction;10
4.9.2.2.1;Brady Wagoner, Ignacio Brescó, and Sarah H. Awad;10
4.9.2.2.2;References;13
4.9.3;Table 1.1. Yellow-Blue Polarity and Their Corresponding Sensorial-Moral Effects;24
4.9.3.1;Figure 1.1. Goethe’s color wheel, with associated symbolic qualities, after his own drawing (1809).;26
4.10;Part I;14
4.10.1;NIELS BOHR LECTURE;14
4.11;CHAPTER 1;16
4.11.1;From Fantasy to Imagination;16
4.11.1.1;Carlos Cornejo;16
4.11.1.1.1;Goethe’s Science;18
4.11.1.1.2;Goethe’s Theory of Colors;23
4.11.1.1.3;Fantasy in Goethe;26
4.11.1.1.4;Mystical-Theological Background;30
4.11.1.1.5;Fantasy in Vico’s Thought;36
4.11.1.1.6;Fantasy in Kant;39
4.11.1.1.7;Fantasy at the Dawn of the New Psychology;42
4.11.1.1.8;Scientific Psychology and an Irony of History;45
4.11.1.2;Conclusion;49
4.11.1.3;Acknowledgments;53
4.11.1.4;NOTES;53
4.11.1.5;References;55
4.11.2;PART II;58
4.11.2.1;Conceptual and historical analyses;58
4.12;CHAPTER 2;60
4.12.1;Use Your Imagination;60
4.12.1.1;Luca Tateo;60
4.12.1.2;What Do We Mean By Imagination?;60
4.12.1.2.1;History of Imagination: The Origins;62
4.12.1.2.2;The Renewed Interest in Imagination Since the Renaissance;66
4.12.1.2.3;Elementism Versus Segmentationism;72
4.12.1.2.4;Imagination and Rationality;73
4.12.1.2.5;Metonymic Constitution of Reality;74
4.12.1.2.6;Imagination and Intersubjectivity;75
4.12.1.3;Conclusion: A Possible Definition of Imagination;76
4.12.1.4;NOTE;77
4.12.1.5;References;78
4.13;CHAPTER 3;80
4.13.1;Reviving the Logic of Aesthetics;80
4.13.1.1;Sven Hroar Klempe and Olga V. Lehmann-Oliveros;80
4.13.1.2;Bottom-Up and Top-Down Perspectives on Aesthetics: Reconciling Sensation and Cognition;81
4.13.1.2.1;Schematism and Top-Down Approaches to Aesthetics;82
4.13.1.2.2;The Ambivalence of Sensation and Bottom-Up Perspectives on Aesthetics;83
4.13.1.2.3;A Path Toward Existence: Being and Becoming Through Aesthetics;86
4.13.1.2.4;Poetry and Science;88
4.13.1.2.5;The “Aestheticological” Dimension of Human Being;89
4.13.1.3;Conclusion;91
4.13.1.4;NOTE;92
4.13.1.5;References;92
4.14;CHAPTER 4;96
4.14.1;Kant and Goethe;96
4.14.1.1;Bo A. Christensen and Steen Brock;96
4.14.1.1.1;Goethe and Kant, According to Cornejo;97
4.14.1.1.2;Another Kant I;102
4.14.1.1.3;Another Kant II;104
4.14.1.1.4;Harré and Models;108
4.14.1.2;Conclusion;112
4.14.1.3;NOTES;112
4.14.1.4;References;113
4.15;CHAPTER 5;116
4.15.1;The Sinnlichkeit of Panoramic Experience;116
4.15.1.1;Jaan Valsiner;116
4.15.1.1.1;The Panoramic Nature of Human Experience;117
4.15.1.1.2;Panoramas: The Whole of a View;119
4.15.1.1.3;Theory of Pleromatization and Schematization;120
4.15.1.1.4;Romantic Roots of Psychology;121
4.15.1.1.5;From Gestalt Principles to Ganzheit Negotiations;123
4.15.1.1.6;Reaching Out Toward Infinities: Two Interdependent Processes;125
4.15.1.1.7;Why Landscape Painting is an Innovation?;125
4.15.1.2;General Conclusions: What Does “Going Forward With Goethe” Imply?;129
4.15.1.3;Acknowledgment;130
4.15.1.4;NOTES;130
4.15.1.5;References;131
4.15.1.5.1;Figure 5.1. Der Watzmann by C. D. Friedrich (1825–1826).;118
4.15.1.5.2;Figure 5.2. Meaning construction through parallel processes of schematization and pleromatization.;121
4.15.1.5.3;Figure 5.3. A real panorama of Danish landscape—a view from Ribe Cathedral.;124
4.15.1.5.4;Figure 5.4. The human psyche coordinating two parallel processes between infinities (after William Stern).;126
4.15.1.5.5;Figure 5.5. Panoramas as replicated in microscale on the ornamentation of clothing.;128
4.15.2;PART III;134
4.15.2.1;THEORETICAL APPROACHES AND DEVELOPMENT;134
4.16;CHAPTER 6;136
4.16.1;Ruins and Memorials;136
4.16.1.1;Zachary Beckstead;136
4.16.1.1.1;Materializing the Past;137
4.16.1.1.2;Simmel and Goethe;140
4.16.1.1.3;Simmel and Ruins;141
4.16.1.1.4;Materiality and the Ruin;144
4.16.1.1.5;Ruin Temporality;145
4.16.1.2;Conclusion: Ruins as Strange and Familiar;146
4.16.1.3;NOTES;148
4.16.1.4;References;148
4.17;CHAPTER 7;150
4.17.1;Fantasy and Imagination;150
4.17.1.1;Tania Zittoun;150
4.17.1.2;The Forgotten Part of Psychology;150
4.17.1.2.1;Fantasy and Imagination in Psychoanalysis;152
4.17.1.2.2;Fantasy and Imagination After Freud;155
4.17.1.2.3;Theorizing Imagination in Cultural Psychology Today;156
4.17.1.3;To Conclude: A Mermaid Meets His Eyes …;160
4.17.1.4;NOTE;160
4.17.1.5;References;161
4.17.1.5.1;Figure 7.1. Implausible imagining in a 3-dimensional space.;159
4.18;CHAPTER 8;164
4.18.1;Hope as Fantasy;164
4.18.1.1;Ditte Alexandra Winther-Lindqvist;164
4.18.1.1.1;On Imagination and Experience;166
4.18.1.1.2;Imagining and Future-Orientation in the Present;167
4.18.1.1.3;Experiencing As-Is, As-If, and What-If;167
4.18.1.1.4;Critical Comments on the Metaphor of Imaginary Loops;169
4.18.1.1.5;Critical Questions Regarding Time and Space in the Loop Model;170
4.18.1.1.6;A Focus on Lived Experience in Social Practice;171
4.18.1.1.7;Things Could Be Different: Hoping Practices in Light of Hostile Events;171
4.18.1.1.8;Hope and Agency;173
4.18.1.1.9;Modes of Hope;174
4.18.1.1.9.1;1. Resolute hoping involves most extensive fantasizing and wishing, where what is hoped for overrides the probabilities of its realization, even to the extent of a counter-conviction on the verge of illusion (i.e., a firm disbelief in the doctor’s ...;174
4.18.1.1.9.2;2. Estimative hoping relies heavily on knowing and cannot be maintained against what authorities (like medical opinions) predict and expect. Estimative hope then is a processual piecemeal kind of hope, which engages with quite concretely formulated e...;174
4.18.1.1.9.3;3. Global hoping is more open-ended and relies mostly on willing and knowing, in its realistic outlook, with a faith in the good (i.e., no matter what happens we still have each other and are to spend our time well).;174
4.18.1.1.10;Analyzing Case Material: Method and Aims;175
4.18.1.1.11;Describing Hope as Reaction to Parental Illness;175
4.18.1.1.12;Hope is Faced With a Threat to What One Cares About1;176
4.18.1.1.13;What Is It to Hope?;176
4.18.1.1.14;What Is it That Hope Hopes For?;177
4.18.1.1.14.1;Hope as Gegenstand When Faced With Uncertainty;178
4.18.1.1.14.2;Further Analysis: Emily’s Case;179
4.18.1.1.15;Emily’s Resolute Hope;179
4.18.1.1.16;Emily’s Estimative Hope;180
4.18.1.1.17;Emily’s Global Hope;181
4.18.1.1.18;Emily’s Perplexed Existence;182
4.18.1.1.18.1;General Comments;183
4.18.1.2;Summing Up;183
4.18.1.3;Acknowledgments;184
4.18.1.4;NOTES;184
4.18.1.5;References;185
4.19;CHAPTER 9;188
4.19.1;From Fantasy and Imagination to Creativity;188
4.19.1.1;Vlad Petre Glveanu;188
4.19.1.1.1;“The Past Is a Foreign Country, They Do Things Differently There”;190
4.19.1.1.2;The (Re)Birth of Creativity;192
4.19.1.1.3;Creativity and the Other;195
4.19.1.1.4;Toward a Critical Cultural Psychology;197
4.19.1.2;Acknowledgments;198
4.19.1.3;References;199
4.19.2;PART IV;202
4.19.2.1;THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION IN PSYCHOLOGY;202
4.20;CHAPTER 10;204
4.20.1;The Dynamics of “Necessity” Shaping Our Imaginative Lives;204
4.20.1.1;John Shotter;204
4.20.1.1.1;Moving on From Cornejo’s Account: Preliminaries to Bringing the Practices at Work Within Our “Civilizatory Orders” to Light;207
4.20.1.1.2;Life Within a Holistic, Still Developing World;208
4.20.1.1.3;Finding the “Roots” of Possible New Ways of Being in Current Forms of Talk;211
4.20.1.2;Imaginative Word Usage, Expressing Similarities (and Differences), and Noticing Distinctions;214
4.20.1.2.1;The “Moving” Power of Words in Their Speaking;216
4.20.1.2.2;“Objects of Comparison” in an Anthropological Hermeneutics;219
4.20.1.3;A Background Landscape of Particular, Hermeneutical Unities—The Possibility of Constitutive Forms of Talk;220
4.20.1.4;Conclusions: From Concepts and Theories to Imaginative and Indicative Ways of Talking;225
4.20.1.5;NOTES;228
4.20.1.6;References;231
4.21;CHAPTER 11;234
4.21.1;Amerindian Psychology;234
4.21.1.1;Danilo Silva Guimarães;234
4.21.1.2;Constructing the Supposed True Knowledge From Legendary Images of the Others in Western Societies;235
4.21.1.2.1;Images of Fantasy as Opposed to the Reality, the Illuminated Truth, and Scientific Knowledge;237
4.21.1.2.2;The Constructivist Alternative;239
4.21.1.2.3;Multiplying the Multiplicity of Psychologies;243
4.21.1.2.4;Facing the Diversity;244
4.21.1.2.5;Other Fantasies and Other Images Grounding Knowledge Construction;246
4.21.1.3;NOTES;248
4.21.1.4;References;249
4.21.1.4.1;Figure 11.2. Scientific knowledge construction between narrative and argumentative discourses.;242
4.21.1.4.2;Figure 11.1. Coordination system of constructivism.;241
4.22;CHAPTER 12;252
4.22.1;Gaps in Human Knowledge;252
4.22.1.1;Lucas B. Mazur;252
4.22.1.1.1;The Cartesian Anxiety Accompanying Our Search for Certainty;253
4.22.1.2;Awareness of the Limitations in the Natural Sciences, Psychology, and Theology;256
4.22.1.2.1;The Importance of Work in the Face of Doubt;258
4.22.1.2.2;The Importance of Work Because of Doubt;260
4.22.1.3;Conclusion;262
4.22.1.4;References;263
4.22.2;Table 13.1. Partnership Research Approach;269
4.23;CHAPTER 13;266
4.23.1;Nature Leaves No Gaps;266
4.23.1.1;Meike Watzlawik;266
4.23.1.1.1;“I Am Gay!”—Being in Contact With the Phenomenon;267
4.23.1.1.2;Writing Songs About Hatred Without Hating?;267
4.23.1.1.3;Capturing the Lived Experience;268
4.23.1.1.4;Diverging Interpretations;270
4.23.1.1.5;Taking Phenomena Apart to Then Put Them Back Together;270
4.23.1.1.6;What Do We Actually Know?;274
4.23.1.2;NOTES;275
4.23.1.3;References;275
4.23.2;Table 13.2. Marcia’s Identity Status Approach;271
4.23.3;PART V;278
4.23.3.1;NEW RESEARCH HORIZONS;278
4.24;CHAPTER 14;280
4.24.1;“We Are Not Free, Admit It … But We Cling Onto Tomorrow”;280
4.24.1.1;Sarah H. Awad;280
4.24.1.1.1;Imagination and Coping;281
4.24.1.1.2;Observing Imagination in Aesthetic Expression;282
4.24.1.1.3;Research Case: Imagination in the Aftermath of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution;283
4.24.1.1.4;Analyzing the Letters;284
4.24.1.1.5;Agency and Resilience;285
4.24.1.1.6;Social Constraints;286
4.24.1.1.7;Imagination as a Dialogue;287
4.24.1.1.8;Memory’s Interplay With Imagination;288
4.24.1.1.9;Future Imagination;289
4.24.1.2;Concluding Thoughts;291
4.24.1.3;References;293
4.24.1.4;Appendix: Sources of Prison Letters;294
4.25;CHAPTER 15;296
4.25.1;Feeling Oneself Into Nature;296
4.25.1.1;Rebekka Mai Eckerdal;296
4.25.1.1.1;My Japanese Experience: Flowers Are Here, But Nobody Picks Them;297
4.25.1.1.2;A Thought Experiment: Breaking Social Rules;299
4.25.1.1.3;Danish Affordances of Flowers: Conquering or Admiring;300
4.25.1.1.4;The Theoretical Issues of Violating and Not Violating Nature;301
4.25.1.1.5;The Special Meaning of The Living;302
4.25.1.1.6;Flowers: Living Things, Until They Die;303
4.25.1.2;Conclusion;304
4.25.1.3;NOTE;305
4.25.1.4;References;306
4.26;CHAPTER 16;308
4.26.1;Russian Revival of the St. George Myth and Its Imagery;308
4.26.1.1;Stefan Hampl and Dominik Mihalits;308
4.26.1.1.1;Interpretation of the Tweet’s Text and the Picture;309
4.26.1.1.2;Formulating Interpretation of the Tweet’s Text;310
4.26.1.1.3;Reflective Interpretation;310
4.26.1.1.4;“Georgish” in Opposition to “Ukrainian”;311
4.26.1.1.5;Language of Force/Military Talk;311
4.26.1.1.6;Distancing and Ridiculing;311
4.26.1.1.7;Credibility and Camouflaging: Making the Author Invisible;311
4.26.1.1.8;Context;312
4.26.1.1.8.1;Formulating Interpretation of the Picture of the Tweet;312
4.26.1.1.8.2;The Order of St. George and Its Ribbon as a Contemporary Derivative;313
4.26.1.2;Discussion: Psychoanalytical Interpretation of the Ribbon;317
4.26.1.2.1;The Ribbon: A Symbol of Coherence and Continuity;318
4.26.1.2.2;The Material Culture of Russkiy Mir;318
4.26.1.2.3;May 9th: The Ritual Celebration of Victory Over Death;321
4.26.1.2.4;Russkiy Mir: Soviet Union Reloaded With Christianity;321
4.26.1.3;Conclusion;323
4.26.1.4;NOTES;327
4.26.1.5;References;328
4.26.1.5.1;Figure 16.1. Picture of Elle advertisement in the twitter message of Pravda.ru, April 22, 2015.;309
4.26.1.5.2;Figure 16.2. Order Of Saint George, 1st class. Russian Federation.;314
4.26.1.5.3;Figure 16.3. St. George ribbon. Idea of the action—RIA Novosty (title translated from Russian).;315
4.26.1.5.4;Figure 16.4. Russian nationalists outside Crimean parliament building in Simferopoldon[ating] distributing St. George ribbons on February 27, 2014 (Fitzpatrick, 2015). Arthur Shwartz/EPA.;316
4.26.1.5.5;Figure 16.6. St. George ribbon of flip-flops.;319
4.26.1.5.6;Figure 16.5. Camouflaged fighter in Eastern Ukraine wearing St. George ribbon.;316
4.26.1.5.7;Figure 16.8. St. George ribbon on nail polish packaging. Special promotion from May 1 to10.;320
4.26.1.5.8;Figure 16.7. St. George ribbons as free gifts on sour cream packages.;320
4.26.1.5.9;Figure 16.9. “The immortal regiment,” May 9, 2016.;322
4.26.1.5.10;Figure 16.10. Russian president Putin among other commemorators, May 9, 2016.;322
4.26.1.5.11;Figure 16.11. Children in scout uniforms with St. George ribbon, May 9, 2016.;323
4.26.1.5.12;Figure 16.12. Orthodox Patriarch Kyrill I Blessing St. George ribbons.;324
4.26.1.5.13;Figure 16.13. Pope Francis receiving a St. George ribbon from a communist member of the Russian parliament, May 6, 2016.;324
4.26.1.5.14;Figure 16.14. Replacement cover for Elle Ukraine, May 2015.;325
4.26.1.5.15;Figure 16.15. Elle Russia, May 2015.;326
4.26.2;PART VI;330
4.26.2.1;CONCLUDING RESPONSE;330
4.27;CHAPTER 17;332
4.27.1;Conclusions;332
4.27.1.1;Carlos Cornejo;332
4.27.1.1.1;Anthropology Instead of Epistemology;334
4.27.1.1.2;Kant and Goethe?;336
4.27.1.1.3;The Actual Soil of Earth;339
4.27.1.1.4;Sensing Similarities;341
4.27.1.1.5;Expressivity of Life;343
4.27.1.2;NOTES;344
4.27.1.3;References;345
4.27.2;CONTRIBUTORS;348
5;Back Cover;350