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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Conscious mind"”.
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The conscious mind unified.
The current state of consciousness research is at an impasse. Neuroscience faces a variety of recalcitrant problems regarding the neurobiological binding together of states of consciousness. Philosophy faces the combination problem, that of holistically unifying phenomenal consciousness. In …
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Reconstructing Science and Re-Imagining Our Conscious Mind: Putting Neuropragmatism to Work
… Dennett's project of imagining new metaphors for consciousness, I meet Rorty's challenge to Dennett to reconstruct science in light of the new metaphors for consciousness - yet I do so in a way that does not simply reduce science to literature as Rorty professed. This first lengthy presentation of …
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Sanitation Realities in Peri-Urban Communities: Unfreedoms, Capabilities and the Conscious Mind - A Case of Chennai, India
… living environment impact upon an individual’s conscious mind, connecting the capability approach to consciousness research. The thesis argues how settlers, overlooked by public services, and subjected to the dangerous and humiliating practice of open defecation, are faced with mental health …
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The dislocated mind : in the heart of reverie
The dislocated mind is a condition common to us all: it speaks about the innate ability of the human mind to take conscious leave of its body in dwelling in the past of memory and in contemplating the future . The effects of dislocation are minimized in children: having a limited quantity of …
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A critical analysis investigating the process of a playwright with reference to Jellyfish, an original work for the stage
… a balance between creativity and discipline, the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. Within the dissertation, we begin to understand which elements of playwriting theory are indispensable and which elements can be toyed with by the writer to create an original piece of work. Great value is …
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Mind over media: Conscious and unconscious responses to media messages
… response to media images is a product of both conscious and preconscious processing, involving structural mechanisms within the brain as well as individual self-concepts, issues of identity, ideological beliefs, and relevance. Visual and auditory processing incorporates both conscious and …
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The Fantasy Self
… of making the connections between the subconscious mind and the conscious mind. The Collective Unconscious is comprised of twelve major archetypes, each with their own set of distinct characteristics. The Innocent, The Orphan, The Warrior, The Caregiver,The Seeker, The Destroyer, The …
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Methods of Surrealism and Intermedial Contemporary Dance
… organic to the individual. Interested in the unconscious mind as a trove of creative impulses, the performers are urged to communicate with their creative core, without the judgement of their logical, conscious mind. The visual aesthetic of the work aims to model Surrealisms goal to transcend …
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Reality
… to the structures and forces of the human mind. In this stage of our mental evolution, it seems apparent the uniqueness of th is np-reality may only be sensed and grasped or known through intuition as interpreted by the arts of the unconscious mind; while the p-reality may only be seen and …
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The Modernist Anti-Mental: Literary Life-Writing, Neurology and Medical Psychology, 1860-1939
… of the nervous system became the basis of the conscious mind and mentality. The central concern of the thesis is with what I call the modernist anti-mental. This manifests itself in three clear ways. Firstly, I use the anti-mental as a term to describe a non- Freudian (or perhaps ambiguously …
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The Railroad in American Poetry
… strong hold the railroad image has had on the consciousness of poets, ranging from the Transcendentalists to contemporary American poets. For many of the nineteenth-century poets, the image of the railroad expresses the promise and the danger of technology in modern industrial society, while …
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Testing the therapist: an analysis of the patient’s attempt to direct treatment
… a phenomenon based on an assumption that the unconscious can think, plan and make decisions in the same way as the conscious mind. Freud’s later theory relating to the ego provides a theoretical framework for CMT and Freud’s early theory is used by Joseph Weiss as an alternative theoretical …
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THE VIOLENCE WITHIN AND WITHOUT: IMAGINATION AND REALITY IN THE NOVEL
… in two theoretical chapters, assumes that the mind/world relationship is fundamental to human experience and to the novel, and that the best way to describe the dialectics of the genre is in terms of a conflict between imagination and reality. I define "imagination" as the structuring power of …
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The empowered body : creative expression as a force for personal transformation
… of creative expression through the role of the unconscious and the conscious is discussed. The defining of a relationship between the unconscious and the conscious is addressed, with reference to the theories of Jung and Freud. The primary process, as well as the mechanisms of condensation and …
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The Self as Auteur: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of Self-reflective photography
… field are transmitted to the brain, we are conscious of only a small proportion of these, while others may be retained within the unconscious to serve as ‘symbolic speech’ in dreams (Krauss and Fryrear, 1983; Naumburg, 1958) as a way to express thoughts and emotions repressed from, or …