| Description |
ix, 286 pages : illustrations, diagrams ; 23.5 cm |
| Series |
Half-time: McGraw-Hill publications in psychology |
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Half-time: McGraw-Hill publications in psychology
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| Contents |
The conflict between Aristotelian and Galileian modes of thought in contemporary psychology -- On the structure of the mind -- Environmental forces in child behavior and development -- The psychological situations of reward and punishment -- Education for reality -- Substitute activity and substitute value -- A dynamic theory of the feeble-minded -- Survey of the experimental investigations |
| Summary |
"In the era of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit - when social pressures on men to conform threatened cherished notions of masculine vitality, freedom, and authenticity - modernist paintings came to be seen as metaphorical embodiments of both idealized and highly conflicted conceptions of masculine selfhood. In Modernism's Masculine Subjects, Marcia Brennan traces the formalist critical discourses in which work by such artists as Henri Matisse, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock could stand as symbolic representations that at once challenged and reproduced such prevailing cultural conceptions of masculinity. Rejecting the typical view of formalism's exclusive engagement with essentialized and purified notions of abstraction and its disengagement from issues of gender and embodiment, Brennan explores the ways in which these categories were intertwined. Historically and theoretically."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
The conflict between Aristotelian and Galileian modes of thought in contemporary psychology.--On the structure of the mind.--Environmental forces in child behavior and development.--The psychological situations of reward and punishment.--Education for reality.--Substitute activity and substitute value.--A dynamic theory of the feeble-minded.--Survey of the experimental investigations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Gestalt psychology.
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Personality.
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Psychology.
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Psychophysiology.
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| Author |
Adams, Donald Keith, 1902-1971.
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Zener, Karl E. (Karl Edward), 1903-1964.
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| LC no. |
35005796 |
| ISBN |
0070374511 |
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