The corpus and the cortex / Jacques M. Chevalier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chevalier, Jacques M., 1949-

Series:

Chevalier, Jacques M., 1949- 3-D mind ; v. 2.

The 3-D mind ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neuropsychology.

Semiotics--Psychological aspects.

Semiotics.

Psycholinguistics.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Neurophysiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Chevalier shows how the attentions and inhibitions of affect and norm are best understood at the crossroads of several disciplines, including neuropsychology, semiotics, and philosophy. He delves into these linkages, with an emphasis on the reciprocal concessions between the pleasure principle and the teachings of normative language (moral, rational). These mutual allowances of sentiment and judgment go far beyond cognitive models of the mind. They also bridge the Freudian and Kantian gap between self-enjoyment and morality. Far from being constantly in struggle, The Corpus and the Cortex shows that norms and infractions are the warps and wefts of a single "neurosemiotic" fabric. Symbolic analyses illustrating these intriguing manifestations of brain, language, and culture range from personal anecdotes to cultural identity rhetoric, animal farm imagery, shoe fetishism, and body piercing. The 3-D Mind 2 presents these analyses against the background of theories and debates concerning concepts of identity construction, metaphor, rhetoric, simulation, consciousness, morality, and eroticism.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Log On: Options and Preferences

Neural Mindfulness

Synaptic Attentions and Reticular Activity

Frontal Lobes, Limbic Processing, Implicit Learning

Autonomic Lateralization

Semiotic Attentions

The Rank Ordering of Signs

Signs That Matter and Those That Don’t

Name Calling: Frogs and Beavers

Heteroculturalism

The High Road and the Low Road

Jacob the Heel-Catcher

Foot and Shoe Fetishes: The Bright Side

Foot and Shoe Festishes: The Dark Side

Spikes and the Motions of Desire

From Earrings to Body Piercing

Philosophical Considerations

The Foldings of Metaphor

Beyond Semiotics, Semantics, and Hermeneutics

Making Sense

Figuratively Speaking

Concessions to Literality and Grammar

I Like Ike

Interpretive and Normative Judgment

Morality, Repression, and Transgression

Rationality and Lifeworld

Regimes of Desire

Mindfulness and Being-in-the-World

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-274) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86042-9

9786612860423

0-7735-7017-9

OCLC:

80221175