Metamorphosis: On the Conflict of Human Development and the Development of Creativity

ISBN-13: 9781138462311 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Ernest G. Schachtel

Opis

First published in 1959, "Metamorphosis" remains one of the great works of developmental psychology. Schachtel moves on to reflections on the senses considered both in terms of their evolving relation to one another and as variable ingredients in the perception and cognition of the adult.

Spis treści

Kerr, Foreword. Part I: On Affect, Anxiety, and the Pleasure Principle. Freud's View of Affect. Affect and Action. Analysis of Specific Emotions: Hope, Joy, Anxiety, and Pleasure. Conclusion. Part II: On the Two Basic Perceptual Modes: Autocentricity and Allocentricity. The Two Basic Perceptual Modes. Objectification and Pleasure-Unpleasure-Boundedness in Different Sense Modalities. The Ontogenetic Development of the Two Basic Perceptual Modes. Secondary Autocentricity. General Attitude, Perceptual Mode, and Their Shifts. Perception as Creative Experience. Part III: On Attention and Memory. The Development of Focal Attention and the Emergence of Reality. On Memory and Childhood Amnesia.

O autorze

Ernest G. Schachtel