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Author:   Talia Welsh
Publisher:   Northwestern University Press
Imprint:   Northwestern University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.307kg
ISBN:  

9780810128804

ISBN 10:   0810128802
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   30 April 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface A philosopher who is willing to observe The child as natural phenomenologist Chapter One: Early Work in Child Psychology Consciousness and action Nascent perception Development Chapter Two: Phenomenology, Gestalt theory, and Psychoanalysis Phenomenology Gestalt theory Psychoanalysis Chapter Three: Syncretic Sociability and the Birth of the Self Syncretic sociability The birth of self and other-awareness Chapter Four: Contemporary Research in Psychology and Phenomenology Neonatal imitation Theory of mind Interaction theory and dialogical relatedness Chapter Five: Exploration and Learning Magic and scientific thinking Child Drawing and adult oculocentrism Chapter Six: Culture, Development, and Gender Development and the case of menstruation Pregnancy and gender Contemporary feminist views Conclusion: An incomparable childhood References Notes Index

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This book is an informative, valuable and thought-provoking contribution to the Merleau-Ponty s interdisciplinary work on child psychology. Scholarly and comprehensive this present volume deserves to be welcomed and studied carefully by students and scholars in embodiment theory, Gestalt psychology, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and by anyone interested in the philosophical relevance of early childhood for the constitution of an individual s subjectivity. Horizon

This book is an informative, valuable and thought-provoking contribution to the Merleau-Ponty's interdisciplinary work on child psychology. Scholarly and comprehensive...this present volume deserves to be welcomed and studied carefully by students and scholars in embodiment theory, Gestalt psychology, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and by anyone interested in the philosophical relevance of early childhood for the constitution of an individual's subjectivity. --<i>Horizon</i>

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Talia Welsh is a University of Chattanooga Foundation associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

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