Deconstructing Dreamscapes of Femininity: Lolitas, in the Mist

Lisa Pavlik-Malone

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

<p>In this second volume, the author once again explores the symbolic relationship between the self and the object. This time, however, the possible fundamental role of cognitive consonance, characterized here as the ability of the mind to integrate opposing ideas into a single expanded understanding of Self, is studied in terms of how it might relate to the following three categories of intuitive experience. One, my physical object, in which consonance or wholeness expands one's understanding of Self when ideas about youngness and oldness become integrated as part of episodic memories that involve an actual physical (toy) doll. Two, my objectified being, in which consonance takes place when, again, ideas about youngness and oldness become integrated through the metaphoric objectification of certain points located on the human female body. And three, in which consonance develops as youngness and oldness ideas become integrated through a doll as a work of art. Within the theoretical framework of each of these three categories, various psychological dynamics which encompass memory, metaphor, and neuroplasticity, are understood to be essential to the molding and shaping of one's subjective experience of doll.</p>

Being Doll: A Study of Youngness & Oldness at Interface

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

<p>This volume presents an exploration of the role of embodied cognition in creating personal, imaginative renditions of hair, that also distally relate to the symbolic significance of the fairytale character Rapunzel's hair (in terms of physical life, romantic life, spiritual life, and psychic life, respectively). Integral to this relation, is the author's idea of "fancifold", which is a quality or state of the imagination that can produce unique neuropsychological elements of enchantment and disenchantment entwined. This book will be of interest to scholars and other researchers concerned with how cognition (including psychology and the brain, psychology and literature, psychology and art, philosophy of mind, and metaphor) might relate specifically to understanding the subjective experience of hair.</p>

Re-doing Rapunzel's Hair: Viewing Subjective Cognition in Fancifold

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

Need for Sleep: Daybeams - Moondreams - New Schemes

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