The AAG-2017-Boston paper session, 'Historicising the Mind, between conscious and unconscious states of mentation' is extending into two panels, and we are looking for a couple of papers to complete our second session.
Papers are encouraged to address, though not limited to the following topics:
Liminal territories of mind, a historical-geography: mind wandering, daydream, revere, hallucination.
Metaphors of movement, literary approaches to the wandering mind.
Spaces of discovery and experimentation that precipitate research 'between conscious and unconscious states of mentation'.
Historical-geographical understandings of cognition as relationship between external environmental stimulus and internally focused thoughts and affects.
Please send abstracts directly to [log in to unmask], before the 27th October deadline.
Session organised by Hazel Morrison and Felicity Callard, Durham University, and Des Fitzgerald, Cardiff University.
Full abstract:
States of mind, conceptualised as veering from conscious to unconscious levels of mentation, such as daydream, reverie, hallucination and mind wandering, are today understood in terms that emanate, (among others) from biology, psychology, psychiatry, theology, philosophy, semantics.
Such liminal territories of mind/brain are often marked as the preserve of distinct disciplinary fields – such as that of the psychiatrist, the neuroscientist, the poet, the priest, out of which are carved complementary, yet more often conflictual understandings of mentation.
This panel invites new insight into the historical-geography of mental states, such as daydream, mind wandering, hallucination and reverie, that permeate the boundaries set, among others by Sigmund Freud, between conscious and unconscious levels of thought. We wish to explore how past literary tropes, theological discourses, anatomical discovery and scientific experimentation, among others, have guided past and present understanding of states of consciousness, that bridge such liminal territories.
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