Human Development, Language and the Future of Mankind [electronic resource] : The Madness of Culture /
Berger, L.author.
Drawing on and integrating unorthodox thought from a broad range of disciplines including clinical psychology, linguistics, philosophy, natural science and psychoanalysis, this book offers a provocative, original analysis of the global threats to our survival, and proposes a remedy.
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Cover; Contents; 1 Understanding Our Global Dangers; Questions that need to be asked; A history of failed remedial efforts; The shortcomings of symptom removal; 'Selfish' behaviors; Symptoms of madness; Choosing a starting point; Unavoidable paradoxes; 2 What Is Language and Why Does It Matter?; An odd question; The received view of language; The separability assumption; The received view of the world; State process formalisms; 3 Infancy and First Language A; The paradox; Learning theories; The competent infant and incremental learning; The ineffable infant and genetic theories
Psychodynamic models of infancyHatching and maturity; Choosing an infant model; 4 Literacy and Primary Orality; Primary or pristine orality; Speculations about primary orality; Primary orality's ineffability; Literate humanity; Primary orality's 'theory' of language; The paradoxes of subjective experience; 5 Ontogenesis and Pathology; Separating the individual and society; Individual pathology; Evading genesis; The infant's crucial step; Why madness?; The other in the mirror; The mad infant's mad helpers; Some consequences; The madness matures; A reminder; 6 Phylogenesis and Madness
Group pathologyBackground; The literacy-induced madness; The core problem; Reality; Examples of symptoms; Now what?; 7 Visions of Sanity; Madness and sanity; Radical alternatives; The two developmental roots of sanity; Elementary sanity evolves; A contemporary model; 8 Toward Restorative Change; We know the solution; Two pathological populations; Childhood and parenting; The world of paradox; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Drawing on and integrating unorthodox thought from a broad range of disciplines including clinical psychology, linguistics, philosophy, natural science and psychoanalysis, this book offers a provocative, original analysis of the global threats to our survival, and proposes a remedy.
Cognitive psychology.
Psycholinguistics.
Biological psychology.
Philosophy of mind.
Developmental psychology.
Cognitive Psychology.
Psycholinguistics.
Biological Psychology.
Philosophy of Mind.
Developmental Psychology.