Self, logic, and figurative thinking
By: Harwood Fisher.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780231145046; 9780231518666
Subjects: Logic; Figures of speech; Self psychology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Major terms, their classification, and their relation to the book's objective; title: The problem of analogous forms; title: Natural logic, categories, and the individual; title: Shift to individual categories, dynamics, and a psychological look at identity form versus function; title: What is the difference between the logic governing a figure of speech and the logic that is immature or unconscious?; title: What are the role and function of the self vis-à-vis consciousness?; title: Development in the logic from immature to mature modes; title: Pathological and defensive logical forms; title: The "I," identity, and the part-whole resolutions; title: The "I," entropy, and the trope.