Author: Giuseppina Marsico
Publisher: IAP
ISBN: 1641136847
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The book provides a new look at the everyday relationship between psychological processes and extraordinary aspects of ordinary phenomena. Why should we deal with ordinary things? People’s life is made of everyday practical, taken-for-granted things, such as driving a car, using money, listening music, etc. When you drive from home to workplace, you are migrating between contexts. Is this an empty space you are crossing, or the time you spend into the car is something meaningful? In psychological terms, things have, at least, three levels of existence, a material, a symbolic and an affective one. The underlying idea is that the symbolic elaboration of everyday things is characterized by the transcendence of the particular object-sign, leading to the creation of more and more complex sign fields. These fields expand according to an inclusive logic up to dialogically and dialectically incorporate opposites (i.e. clean/dirty, transparent/opaque, hide/ show, join/divide, slow/fast, etc.). Even the meaning of “ordinary” and “extraordinary” follow such an inclusive logic: if you give a positive value to ordinary, extraordinary is rule-breaking; otherwise, if ordinary means trivial, extraordinary assumes a positive value. Besides, things are cultural artifacts mediating the experience of the world, the psychological processes and the construction of mind. Reflecting upon “things” is thus a more meaningful pathway to understand Psyche.
Ordinary Things and Their Extraordinary Meanings
Author: Giuseppina Marsico
Publisher: IAP
ISBN: 1641136847
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The book provides a new look at the everyday relationship between psychological processes and extraordinary aspects of ordinary phenomena. Why should we deal with ordinary things? People’s life is made of everyday practical, taken-for-granted things, such as driving a car, using money, listening music, etc. When you drive from home to workplace, you are migrating between contexts. Is this an empty space you are crossing, or the time you spend into the car is something meaningful? In psychological terms, things have, at least, three levels of existence, a material, a symbolic and an affective one. The underlying idea is that the symbolic elaboration of everyday things is characterized by the transcendence of the particular object-sign, leading to the creation of more and more complex sign fields. These fields expand according to an inclusive logic up to dialogically and dialectically incorporate opposites (i.e. clean/dirty, transparent/opaque, hide/ show, join/divide, slow/fast, etc.). Even the meaning of “ordinary” and “extraordinary” follow such an inclusive logic: if you give a positive value to ordinary, extraordinary is rule-breaking; otherwise, if ordinary means trivial, extraordinary assumes a positive value. Besides, things are cultural artifacts mediating the experience of the world, the psychological processes and the construction of mind. Reflecting upon “things” is thus a more meaningful pathway to understand Psyche.
Publisher: IAP
ISBN: 1641136847
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The book provides a new look at the everyday relationship between psychological processes and extraordinary aspects of ordinary phenomena. Why should we deal with ordinary things? People’s life is made of everyday practical, taken-for-granted things, such as driving a car, using money, listening music, etc. When you drive from home to workplace, you are migrating between contexts. Is this an empty space you are crossing, or the time you spend into the car is something meaningful? In psychological terms, things have, at least, three levels of existence, a material, a symbolic and an affective one. The underlying idea is that the symbolic elaboration of everyday things is characterized by the transcendence of the particular object-sign, leading to the creation of more and more complex sign fields. These fields expand according to an inclusive logic up to dialogically and dialectically incorporate opposites (i.e. clean/dirty, transparent/opaque, hide/ show, join/divide, slow/fast, etc.). Even the meaning of “ordinary” and “extraordinary” follow such an inclusive logic: if you give a positive value to ordinary, extraordinary is rule-breaking; otherwise, if ordinary means trivial, extraordinary assumes a positive value. Besides, things are cultural artifacts mediating the experience of the world, the psychological processes and the construction of mind. Reflecting upon “things” is thus a more meaningful pathway to understand Psyche.
Extraordinary Interpretations
Author: Gary Monroe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Presented in full color, this collection of examples from Florida artists attests to an intensely personal yet universal desire for self-expression.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Presented in full color, this collection of examples from Florida artists attests to an intensely personal yet universal desire for self-expression.
Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers
Author: Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
The Mining Engineer
Author: Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain)
Publisher:
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
The International Steam Engineer
Author:
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Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
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Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The International Operating Engineer
Author:
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Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
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Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
International Steam Engineer
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
The Antiquary
Author: Edward Walford
Publisher:
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Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Egypt, Trunk of the Tree, Vol. I
Author: Simson R. Najovits
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 0875862349
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
An award-winning writer and international journalist leads the general reader through ancient Egypt, exploring the maze of facts and fantasies, and examines Egypt's place in the history of religion and monotheism in particular. Volume 1 examines the conte.
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 0875862349
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
An award-winning writer and international journalist leads the general reader through ancient Egypt, exploring the maze of facts and fantasies, and examines Egypt's place in the history of religion and monotheism in particular. Volume 1 examines the conte.
The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears
Author: Lesley Brill
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501340166
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Stephen Frears has a career approaching over half-a-century, directing films of astonishing variety, beauty, and daring, and yet many often have trouble remembering his name. The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears celebrates this great filmmaker, beginning with a short biography of Frears, general observations on unifying themes and styles in his oeuvre, and the characterization of his manner of directing. By focusing on 10 key films, Lesley Brill finds coherence in Frears' characteristic irony and in his concentration on many kinds of love. In movies such as My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity, The Queen, Philomena, and many others, Frears portrays widely varied situations and characters with a combination of insight, skepticism, and sympathy. He has the passionate, unjudgmental focus of an artist who stands simultaneously at a distance from his subjects and within their worlds. Through Frears' work is widely admired, Brill argues that he has attracted little scholarly writing because of a combination of the diffidence of his self-presentation and the difficulty of explicating the complex ideas and characters of his films. The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears is meant to inspire others to further examine his films individually and his career as a whole.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501340166
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Stephen Frears has a career approaching over half-a-century, directing films of astonishing variety, beauty, and daring, and yet many often have trouble remembering his name. The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears celebrates this great filmmaker, beginning with a short biography of Frears, general observations on unifying themes and styles in his oeuvre, and the characterization of his manner of directing. By focusing on 10 key films, Lesley Brill finds coherence in Frears' characteristic irony and in his concentration on many kinds of love. In movies such as My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity, The Queen, Philomena, and many others, Frears portrays widely varied situations and characters with a combination of insight, skepticism, and sympathy. He has the passionate, unjudgmental focus of an artist who stands simultaneously at a distance from his subjects and within their worlds. Through Frears' work is widely admired, Brill argues that he has attracted little scholarly writing because of a combination of the diffidence of his self-presentation and the difficulty of explicating the complex ideas and characters of his films. The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears is meant to inspire others to further examine his films individually and his career as a whole.