Primitive Mental States: Across the Lifespan - Hardcover

Kostoulas, Katina

 
9781568216850: Primitive Mental States: Across the Lifespan
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1568216858 ISBN 13: 9781568216850
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1997

Synopsis

This is the first volume of an annual dedicated to the study of primitive mental states. We are drawn to and fascinated by the primitive, yet its meanings are multiple and complex. Primitive has been used synonymously with early, original, unorganized, organizing, random, deep, regressed, savage, fundamental, Dionysian, demonic, pregenital, and archetypal, among other terms. Primitive mental states are paradoxically described as highly sophisticated and deeply unsophisticated; as originating in culture or biology; as being spiritual, intrapsychic and intrasubjective. As is clear, though the meaning of primitive cannot be captured by a single definition, it does refer to something powerful, and that something is the subject of this series. With contributions from experts in many different fields, this first volume should be of interest to therapists, students of literature, and anyone interested in exploring the workings of the mind.

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Publisher
Jason Aronson, Inc.
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1568216858
ISBN 13 
9781568216850
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
296
Editor
Alhanati Shelley