Feeling and Personhood: Psychology in Another KeyJohn Heron presents a radical new theory of the person in which feeling, differentiated from emotion, becomes the distinctive feature of personhood. The book explores the applications of Heron's ideas to living and learning and includes numerous experiential exercises. Central to Heron's analysis are interrelationships between four basic psychological modes - affective, imaginal, conceptual and practical. In particular, feeling is seen as the ground and potential from which all other aspects of the psyche emerge - emotion, intuition, imaging of all kinds, reason, discrimination, intention and action. The author also shows the fundamental relation of his ideas to theory and practice in transpersonal psychology and phi |
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action active affective appearance awareness basic become behaviour belief capacity Chapter child compulsive conceptual consciousness conventional course creative culture deep direct discrimination discuss distinct distress dream dynamic emerge emotional exercise existence experience experiential expression feeling felt field Figure findings four fully functions give ground human idea imagery imaginal imaginal mode important includes individuating inquiry integrated intuition involved kind knowledge language learning cycle living look manifest means metaphor mind minutes mode move mutual nature object participation participatory pattern perceiving perception person personhood polarities positive potential practical present propositional psyche psychological reality reflection relation relax repressed resonance reversal cycle sense separate share social spiritual split stage structure symbolic theory things tion transaction transformation turns universal up-hierarchy whole world of presence