Symbolic Mental Representations in Arts and Mystical Experiences: Primordial Mental Activity and Archetypal Constellations

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedicaton
Table of Contents
List of Figures
	11.1 ‘O Rio Que Corre’ [River that Runs], 1999
	11.2 Untitled, the 1990S
	11.3 ‘A Flor Do Amor’ [Love’s Flower], 1999
	11.4 Untitled, 2013
	11.5 ‘Drowning’, Undated
	11.6 ‘Swan 2’, Undated
	11.7 ‘The Cross I Love to Bear’, Undated
	11.8 ‘The Demonstration’, Undated
Acknowledgements and Credits
List of Abbreviations
1 Introduction to the Understanding of Archetypal Constellations Through the Lens of Primordial Mental Activity
Part I: How Discussing the Structure, Affective Charging, and Functioning of the Body Within the Occurrence of Archetypal Constellations Can Support the Developmental View of Archetypes
	2 Exploring The Origins of Symbolic Thinking: The Intelligibility of the Sensing and Feeling Brain
	3 PMA (Primordial Mental Activity): the Affective-Somatic Unconscious
	4 Archetypal Imagery as Mainly Channelled by Mental Representations that Mediate the Here-Now From Partial Simulations of the Past, Awakening or Reliving the Affectivity that Marked it, and the Background Cognitive Capacity that (by then) Targeted its Metabolisation
	5 Affects, Sounds, Images, and Actions: Addressing the Developmental Formation and Activation of Archetypes Through the Consideration of Image-Schemas and PMA
	6 The Comparison of PMA to the Fantasy-Thinking Mind
	Conclusion to Part I
Part II: Impressions and Expressions of the Body’S Mind in Mystical Experiences and Arts
	7 Proximities and Distances Between Mental Illness and Mysticism
	8 Mystical Experiences of the Ayahuasca Consumption – the Brazilian Santo Daime Doctrine and European Neo-Shamanism
	9 Witnessing PMA Operations: the Activation of Archetypes in [neo]Shamanic Practices
	10 Arts and Psychosis: Comprehending PMA Expressions in their Association
	11 Interpreting PMA in Artistic Creations: Primary Metaphors On Canvases
	Conclusion To Part II
Part III: Affects, Image Schematic Compounds, and Patterns of Behaviour – Links Between Body, Concept, and Culture
	12 Conclusions: Understanding Affective, Non-Verbal Matrices of the Making of Meaning
	13 Further Research
Index