Freud, Stern and McGilchrist: Developmental and Cultural Implications of Their Work
“Human beings have two fundamentally different ways of thinking about and engaging with the world.” Some variant of this proposition is shared by many thinkers across time. This paper focuses on the core similarities and the subtle (but significant) differences between Freud’s theory of primary and...
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| description | “Human beings have two fundamentally different ways of thinking about and engaging with the world.” Some variant of this proposition is shared by many thinkers across time. This paper focuses on the core similarities and the subtle (but significant) differences between Freud’s theory of primary and secondary processes, Karl Stern’s theory of the scientific and poetic modes of knowledge and Iain McGilchrist’s account of the differences between left and right-hemispheric competences, values and ways of “being-in-the-world”. It asks whether (or to what extent) the collective tendency to privilege one “way of knowing” over another promotes or inhibits optimal human development and cultural change and transformation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-49323af118434d638192793480171bc42022-12-21T22:23:32ZengUniversity of WarsawEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture2544-302X2544-302X2019-07-013210912310.14394/eidos.jpc.2019.0021Freud, Stern and McGilchrist: Developmental and Cultural Implications of Their WorkDaniel Burston0Psychology Department, Duquesne University“Human beings have two fundamentally different ways of thinking about and engaging with the world.” Some variant of this proposition is shared by many thinkers across time. This paper focuses on the core similarities and the subtle (but significant) differences between Freud’s theory of primary and secondary processes, Karl Stern’s theory of the scientific and poetic modes of knowledge and Iain McGilchrist’s account of the differences between left and right-hemispheric competences, values and ways of “being-in-the-world”. It asks whether (or to what extent) the collective tendency to privilege one “way of knowing” over another promotes or inhibits optimal human development and cultural change and transformation.http://eidos.uw.edu.pl/freud-stern-and-mcgilchrist-developmental-and-cultural-implications-of-their-work/psychoanalysismodes of knowinghemispheric dominancemodernitypostmodernism |
| spellingShingle | Daniel Burston Freud, Stern and McGilchrist: Developmental and Cultural Implications of Their Work Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture psychoanalysis modes of knowing hemispheric dominance modernity postmodernism |
| title | Freud, Stern and McGilchrist: Developmental and Cultural Implications of Their Work |
| title_full | Freud, Stern and McGilchrist: Developmental and Cultural Implications of Their Work |
| title_fullStr | Freud, Stern and McGilchrist: Developmental and Cultural Implications of Their Work |
| title_full_unstemmed | Freud, Stern and McGilchrist: Developmental and Cultural Implications of Their Work |
| title_short | Freud, Stern and McGilchrist: Developmental and Cultural Implications of Their Work |
| title_sort | freud stern and mcgilchrist developmental and cultural implications of their work |
| topic | psychoanalysis modes of knowing hemispheric dominance modernity postmodernism |
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