This Invisible Riot of the Mind: Samuel Johnson's Psychological TheoryUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2016 M11 11 - 216 páginas In This Invisible Riot of the Mind, Gloria Sybil Gross contends that Samuel Johnson was a pioneer in the development of modern psychological thought, challenging the timeworn, stilted typecasting of Samuel Johnson as the pious Christian moralist. Instead, she argues that Johnson was a daring, at times irreverent, explorer of human nature, who strenuously rejected old relics of sanctimony and repressive authority. To make her case, Gross draws on a wide range of materials from Johnson's life and works, as well as from eighteenth-century medical psychology. Throughout, she is scrupulous in analyzing Johnson's psychological thought within the cultural idiom that would have been available to him. At the same time, she employs a classical psychoanalytic approach, that seeks to establish a coherent relationship among Johnson's life, his fantasies, and his creative work. |
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The Intrapsychic Life | 11 |
2 Medical Psychology in the Eighteenth Century | 21 |
The Early Career | 40 |
4 The Physician of the Soul | 58 |
Approaching Fame and Fortune | 78 |
6 The Uses of Enchantment | 110 |
7 Character and Culture | 138 |
Conclusion | 177 |
Bibliography | 183 |
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This Invisible Riot of the Mind: Samuel Johnson's Psychological Theory Gloria Sybil Gross Vista de fragmentos - 1992 |