The age of insight the quest to understand the unconscious in art, mind, and brain : from Vienna 1900 to the present

A brilliant book by a Nobel Prize winner, "The Age of Insight" takes readers to Vienna in 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind--our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions--and how mind and brain relate to...

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Main Author: Kandel, Eric R.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, c2012.
Edition:1st ed.
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245 1 4 |a The age of insight :  |b the quest to understand the unconscious in art, mind, and brain : from Vienna 1900 to the present /  |c Eric R. Kandel. 
250 |a 1st ed. 
260 |a New York :  |b Random House,  |c c2012. 
300 |a xviii, 636 p. :  |b ill. (some col.) ;  |c 25 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Pt. 1: A psychoanalytic psychology and art of unconscious emotion. An inward turn : Vienna 1900 ; Exploring the truths hidden beneath the surface : origins of a scientific medicine ; Viennese artists, writers, and scientists meet in the Zuckerkandl Salon ; Exploring the brain beneath the skull : origins of a scientific psychiatry ; Exploring mind together with the brain : the development of a brain-based psychology ; Exploring mind apart from the brain : origins of a dynamic psychology ; Searching for inner meaning in literature ; The depiction of modern women's sexuality in art ; The depiction of the psyche in art ; The fusion of eroticism, aggression, and anxiety in art -- Pt. 2: A cognitive psychology of visual perception and emotional response to art ; Discovering the beholder's share ; Observation is also invention : the brain as a creativity machine ; The emergence of twentieth-century painting -- Pt. 3: Biology of the beholder's visual response to art. The brain's processing of visual images ; Deconstruction of the visual image: the building blocks of form perception ; Reconstruction of the world we see : vision is information processing ; High-level vision and the brain's perception of face, hands, and body ; Top-down processing of information : using memory to find meaning ; The deconstruction of emotion : the search for emotional primitives ; The artistic depiction of emotion through the face, hands, body, and color ; Unconscious emotions, conscious feelings, and their bodily expression -- Pt. 4: Biology of the beholder's emotional response to art. Top-down control of cognitive emotional information ; The biological response to beauty and ugliness in art ; The beholder's share : entering the private theater of another's mind ; The biology of the beholder's share : modeling other people's minds ; How the brain regulates emotion and empathy -- Pt. 5: An evolving dialogue between visual art and science. Artistic universals and the Austrian expressionists ; The creative brain ; The cognitive unconscious and the creative brain ; Brain circuits for creativity ; Talent, creativity, and brain development ; Knowing ourselves : the new dialogue between art and science. 
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650 0 |a Subconsciousness. 
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