1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785246403321

Titolo

Emotion and the psychodynamics of the cerebellum : a neuro-psychoanalytical analysis and synthesis / / edited by Fred Levin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Karnac, , 2009

ISBN

0-429-91320-6

0-429-47420-2

1-282-77953-2

9786612779534

1-84940-850-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LevinFred M

Disciplina

152.4

Soggetti

Emotions and cognition

Cerebellum

Memory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-239) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copy Right; DEDICATION; ABOUT THE EDITOR; PREFACE; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; PART I: THE UNCONSCIOUS REVISITED AND RECONCEPTUALIZED; CHAPTER ONE: Sleep and dreaming, Part 1: Dreams are emotionally meaningful adaptive learning engines that help us identify and deal with unconscious (ucs) threats by means of deferred action plans;  REM sleep consolidates memory for that which we learn and express in dreams

CHAPTER TWO: Sleep and dreaming, Part 2: The importance of the SEEKING system for dream-related learning and the complex contributions to dreaming of memory mechanisms, transcription factors, sleep activation events, reentrant architecture, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), periaqueductal gray (PAG), and the centromedian nucleus of the thalamus (CNT)PART II: EMOTION: TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING ITS PLACE AND PURPOSE IN MIND/BRAIN

CHAPTER THREE: A neuro-psychoanalytic theory of emotion, Part 1: The basis for a serious interdisciplinary approach, or, how we are trying to clarify the ways brain and mind create each otherCHAPTER FOUR: A



neuro-psychoanalytic theory of emotion, Part 2: Comments on Critical commentaries; PART III: MORE ABOUT GENE ACTIVATION, SPONTANEITY, AND THE PRIMING OF MEMORY FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC LEARNING; CHAPTER FIVE: Synapses, cytokines and long-term memory networks: An interdisciplinary look at how psychoanalysis activates learning via its effects on emotional attention

CHAPTER SIX: Recent neuroscience discoveries, and protein cellular pathways: their possible interdisciplinary significanceCHAPTER SEVEN: Introduction to the cerebellum (CB): Ito Masao's controllerregulator model of the brain, and some implications for psychodynamic psychiatry and psychoanalysis (including how we understand the conscious/unconscious distinction, and the role of feelings in the formation and expression of the self); PART IV: THE CEREBELLUM, ADVANCED CONSIDERATIONS: THE ROLE OF RECALIBRATION, AND MODELING OF ONE PART OF THE BRAIN BY ANOTHER

CHAPTER EIGHT: When might the CB be involved in modeling the Limbic System, the SEEKING system, or other systems?CHAPTER NINE: The CB contribution to affect and the affect contribution to the CB. How emotions are calibrated within a virtual reality (of thought and dreaming) for the purpose of making complex decisions about the future, with minimal error; PART V: WHERE WE HAVE BEEN; CHAPTER TEN: Review, summary, and conclusions; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

This is a book about cognition, emotion, memory, and learning. Along the way it examines exactly how implicit memory (""knowing how"") and explicit memory (""knowing that"") are connected with each other via the cerebellum. Since emotion is also related to memory, and most likely, one of its organising features, many fields of human endeavour have attempted to clarify its fundamental nature, including its relationship to metaphor, problem-solving, learning, and many other variables. This is an attempt to pull together the various strands relating to emotions, so that clinicians and researchers



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955668003321

Autore

Spacks Patricia Ann Meyer

Titolo

Novel beginnings : experiments in eighteenth-century English fiction / / Patricia Meyer Spacks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2006

ISBN

9786611721961

9781281721969

1281721964

9780300128338

0300128339

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (ix, 309 p.).)

Collana

Yale guides to English literature

Disciplina

823/.509

Soggetti

English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

Experimental fiction, English - History and criticism

Literary form - History - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-297) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The excitement of beginnings -- Novels of adventure -- The novel of development -- Novels of consciousness -- The novel of sentiment -- The novel of manners -- Gothic fiction -- The political novel -- Tristram Shandy and the development of the novel.

Sommario/riassunto

In this study intended for general readers, eminent critic Patricia Meyer Spacks provides a fresh, engaging account of the early history of the English novel. Novel Beginnings departs from the traditional, narrow focus on the development of the realistic novel to emphasize the many kinds of experimentation that marked the genre in the eighteenth century before its conventions were firmly established in the nineteenth. Treating well-known works like Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy in conjunction with less familiar texts such as Sarah Fielding's The Cry (a kind of hybrid novel and play) and Jane Barker's A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies (a novel of adventure replete with sentimental verse and numerous subnarratives), the book evokes the excitement of a multifaceted and unpredictable process of growth and change. Investigating fiction throughout the 1700's, Spacks delineates



the individuality of specific texts while suggesting connections among novels. She sketches a wide range of forms and themes, including Providential narratives, psychological thrillers, romans à clef, sentimental parables, political allegories, Gothic romances, and many others. These multiple narrative experiments show the impossibility of thinking of eighteenth-century fiction simply as a precursor to the nineteenth-century novel, Spacks shows. Instead, the vast variety of engagements with the problems of creating fiction demonstrates that literary history-by no means inexorable-might have taken quite a different course.