Freud, stern and mcgilchrist: Developmental and cultural implications of their work
DOI
10.14394/eidos.jpc.2019.0021
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Publication Title
Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
Volume
3
Issue
2
First Page
109
Last Page
123
Keywords
Hemispheric dominance, Modernity, Modes of knowing, Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis
Abstract
“Human beings have two fundamentally different ways of thinking about and engaging with the world.” Some variant of this proposition is shared by many thinkers across time. This paper focuses on the core similarities and the subtle (but significant) differences between Freud’s theory of primary and secondary processes, Karl Stern’s theory of the scientific and poetic modes of knowledge and Iain McGilchrist’s account of the differences between left and right-hemispheric competences, values and ways of “being-in-the-world”. It asks whether (or to what extent) the collective tendency to privilege one “way of knowing” over another promotes or inhibits optimal human development and cultural change and transformation.
Open Access
Gold
Repository Citation
Burston, D. (2019). Freud, stern and mcgilchrist: Developmental and cultural implications of their work. Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 3 (2), 109-123. https://doi.org/10.14394/eidos.jpc.2019.0021