Fantasies of flight / Daniel M. Ogilvie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ogilvie, Daniel M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Levitation.

Levitation--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fantasies of Flight invigorates the field of personality psychology by challenging the contemporary academic view that individuals are best studied as carriers of traits. Daniel Ogilvie exchanges a heart-to-heart, case study approach to understanding human behavior for the current strategies of categorizing and comparing individuals according to their manifest traits. Ogilvie asks and endeavors to answer questions like ""What were the psychological conditions that led Sir James Barrie to create a character named Peter Pan?"" and ""What were the dynamics behind the Marshall Herff Applewhite's

Contents:

CONTENTS; PART I: Flight Preparations; ONE: Come Fly with Me; TWO: The Shape of a Discipline; THREE: An American Icarus; FOUR: Henry Murray's Personology; FIVE: All the King's Horses and All the King's Men; SIX: Freud on Da Vinci: The Rocky Road of Psychobiographic Investigations; PART II: Lift-Off; SEVEN: Poor Peter; EIGHT: He Played until His Mother Looked Happy; NINE: Outside Opinions; TEN: What Can I Do to Be Forever Known?; ELEVEN: Attachment and Separation; TWELVE: Life at the Intersection; THIRTEEN: May the Force Be with You; FOURTEEN: Carl Jung's Search for Permanence

PART III: Ground Maintenance and Theoretical Adjustments FIFTEEN: Attachment Revisited; SIXTEEN: Stern's Outside-In Theory of Self-Development; SEVENTEEN: Damasio's Inside-Out Theory of Self-Development; EIGHTEEN: What's Missing from this Picture?; PART IV: Variations on a Theme; NINETEEN: Dumbo; TWENTY: Larry, a Lonely Long-Distance Runner; TWENTY-ONE: Perry Smith; TWENTY-TWO: Tonka and His Flying Backpack; TWENTY-THREE: A Lawn Chair and a Phantom Flying Saucer; TWENTY-FOUR: Marc Chagall; TWENTY-FIVE: The Case for Case Studies; APPENDIX. Women in Flight; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-028902-3

1-280-50271-1

0-19-534372-7

0-19-530359-8

1-60256-674-7

OCLC:

821691779