Symbolic Mental Representations in Arts and Mystical Experiences: Primordial Mental Activity and Archetypal Constellations [Hardcover]

Symbolic Mental Representations in Arts and Mystical Experiences explains how the individuals conceptualization of reality is dependent on the development of their brain, body structure, and the experiences that are physiologically confronted, acted, or observed via learning and/or simulation, occurring in family or community settings.

The book offers support for Jean Knoxs reinterpretation of Jung's archetypal hypothesis, exposing the fundamentality of the body  in its neurophysiological development, bodily-felt sensations, non-verbal interactions, affects, emotions, and actions  in the process of meaning-making. Using information from disciplines such as Affective Neuroscience, Embodied Cognition, Attachment Theory, and Cognitive Linguistics, it clarifies how the most refined experiences of symbolic imagination are rooted in somatopsychic patterns.

This book will be of great interest for academics and researchers in the fields of Analytical Psychology, Affective Neuroscience, Linguistics, Anthropology of Consciousness, Art-therapy, and Mystical Experiences, as well as Jungian and post-Jungian scholars, philosophers, and teachers.

1. Introduction to the understanding of archetypal constellations through the lens of Primordial Mental Activity.    Part I How discussing the structure, affective charging, and functioning of the body within the occurrence of archetypal constellations can support the developmental view of archetypes.   2. Exploring the origins of symbolic thinking: the intelligibility of the sensing and feeling brain.  3.  PMA (Primordial Mental Activity): The affective-somatic unconscious.  4. Archetypal imagery as mainly channelled by mental representations that mediate the here-now from partial simulations of the past, l“L