Symbolic Mental Representations in Arts and Mystical Experiences

<p><em>Symbolic Mental Representations in Arts and Mystical Experiences</em> explains how the individual’s 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.</p><p>The book offers support for Jean Knox’s 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.</p><p>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.</p>