The Primordial Dance

Diametric and Concentric Spaces in the Unconscious World

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Paul Downes

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This book argues that a silent axis of the unconscious world rests largely undiscovered. It recasts foundational concepts in the psychology of Freud, Jung, Carol Gilligan and R.D. Laing, as well as in cognitive science, to highlight this hidden unconscious axis: primordial spaces of diametric and concentric structures. The author generates fresh approaches to understanding the philosophy of early Heidegger and Derrida, with the idea of cross-cultural diametric and concentric spaces fuelling a radical reinterpretation of early Heidegger’s transcendental project, and challenging a postmodern consensus that reduces truths and experiences to mere socially constructed playthings of culture. The book, which also examines projected structures in modernist art, suggests a systematic refashioning of many Western assumptions, but it is more than a deconstruction. It also attempts to offer a new interplay between structures and meaning, as a spatial phenomenology. This significant expansion of the boundaries of human subjectivity opens alternative pathways for imagining what it means to be human, in order to challenge the reduction of experience to instrumental reason.

Author Biography:

Paul Downes is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University.

Release date NZ

November 7th, 2012

Author

Paul Downes

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

New edition

Pages

442

Dimensions

150x225x25

ISBN-13

9783034307604

Product ID

20975849

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