A Psychohistory of Metaphors: Envisioning Time, Space, and Self through the Centuries [Hardcover]

How have figures of speech configured new concepts of time, space, and mind throughout history? Brian J. McVeigh answers this question in A Psychohistory of Metaphors: Envisioning Time, Space, and Self through the Centuries by exploring meta-framing: our ever-increasing capability to step back from the environment, search out its familiar features to explain the unfamiliar, and generate as if forms of knowledge and metaphors of location and vision. This book demonstrates how analogizing and abstracting have altered spatio-visual perceptions, expanding our introspective capabilities and allowing us to adapt to changing social circumstances.Brian J. McVeigh holds a PhD from Princeton University and is now training to be a mental health counselor.

Brian McVeigh extends Jayness ideas on metaphor and thought, expands upon the different features of consciousness, explains the interrelatedness of our conceptions of time, space, and the self, and explores some of the implications of our newly learned inner lifethe consequences of our consciousness. His ideas constitute a significant step forward to both understanding the metaphorical basis of thought and the human condition. Marcel Kuijsten, Julian Jaynes Society

McVeighs Psychohistory traces in detail the development of introspection, augmenting the ideas of Julian Jaynes. He explains how and why introspection developed in all its variations. He presents a well-documented history of this development in its cultural contexts. This is one of the books Jaynes said needed to be written. It provides a fascinating history of the often confusing and rarely documented cultural evolution of human consciousness. A must-read for scholars of history of the mind and Julian Jaynes. John F. Hainly, Southern University

McVeigh extends the work of the psychologist Julian Jaynes by revealing the close coupling between the character of the interior self and the ever-changing social context . . . A Psychohistorlı