Journal of Phenomenological Psychology articles from September 2001

Journal of Phenomenological Psychology archives from September 2001

Preface.
September 22, 2001... For some time, we have hoped to offer a series of special issues, each dedicated to a particular area of phenomenological psychology and assembled by a guest editor who is an expert and leader in that field. I am happy to present the first such...

News of the terrorist attack on New York.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
September 22, 2001... September 11, 2001. News of the terrorist attack on New York reached us here in Montreal just as I was reviewing the final versions of the articles that are published in this special issue of the Journal. As we sat for days glued to our...

Introduction.
September 22, 2001... It is now already more than a century ago that psychology became established as an independent academic discipline. What is remarkable about the new discipline is that it began its academic career by an administrative fiat rather than on the...

"The longer one hesitates before the door the stranger one becomes". (1).
September 22, 2001... (Translated from the Dutch by Bernd Jager, Universite du Quebec a Montreal) ABSTRACT The author draws attention to a modern technique of narration that inverts the meaning of ancient myths and stories. This practice creates a new type...

The birth of poetry and the creation of a human world: An exploration of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
September 22, 2001... ABSTRACT The Gilgamesh Epic tells of a distraught young king who traveled to the end of the world in search of the wisdom needed to accept human mortality and the courage to lead a compassionate and fruitful life. He finds this wisdom in...

Some notes on poetry and language in the works of Gaston Bachelard.
September 22, 2001... (Translated from the French by Bernd Jager, Universite du Quebec at Montreal) ABSTRACT Natural scientific psychology grew out of an effort to objectify language. The ultimate effect of its methodological innovations was to distance...

Towards a phenomenology of writing: A reading of Marie Cardinal's Les Grands Desordres (Disorderly Conduct).
September 22, 2001... (Translated from the Spanish by Pablo Mendez and Bernd Jager) ABSTRACT Marie Cardinal's novel Les Grands Desordres (Disorderly Conduct) explores the power of biography and fictional writing to reveal the human world in ways that elude...

My life in psychology: Making a place for fiction in a world of science.
September 22, 2001... ABSTRACT The author reflects on his long career as an educational psychologist and on the role of literature in his vision of psychological science. The author followed with great interest the major developments in psychology around the...

Imagining: A Phenomenological Study. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Casey, E. (2000), Imagining: A Phenomenological Study. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN: 0-253-33802-6, 269 pages, $44.95 (cloth). Ever since the cognitive revolution in American psychology, that return to the "mental life"...

Freud and Psychoanalysis. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Meissner, W. W. (2000). Freud and Psychoanalysis. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press. ISBN 0268028559, 279 pages, $20.00 (paper). Despite the inexorable decline of interest in psychoanalysis, there has been no shortage of...

Introduction to Phenomenology. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Moran, D. (2000), Introduction to Phenomenology. London: Routledge, ISBN 0415183731, 400 pages, $24.99 (paper). The hope of Dermot Moran's Introduction to Phenomenology is "to contribute in some way to the understanding of Continental...