Metaphors of Mind in Fiction and Psychology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813152967)

Curiosity about the human mind-what it is and how it functions-began long before modern psychology. But because the mind and its processes are so elusive, they could be described only by means of metaphor. Michael Kearns, in this prize-winning study, examines the development of metaphors of the mind in psychological writings from Hobbes through William James and in fiction from Defoe through Henry James. Throughout the eighteenth century and even into the early nineteenth, metaphors of the mind

Author: Michael S. Kearns
ISBN-10: 0813152968
ISBN-13: 9780813152967
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61d