The Duality of Mind

2018 ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
H. Ernest Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Duality Of Mind

Nineteenth-century ideas on hemisphere differences and “duality of mind”

1985 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 617-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Harrington
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Brain Research ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Brain Sciences ◽  
Mind And Brain ◽  
Human Side ◽  
Duality Of Mind ◽  
The Right ◽  
The 19Th Century

AbstractIt is widely felt that the sorts of ideas current in modern laterality and split-brain research are largely without precedent in the behavioral and brain sciences. This paper not only challenges that view, but makes a first attempt to define the relevance of older concepts and data to present research programs.In the 19th century, there was a body of literature that held that many mental pathologies could be explained by supposing that each individual potentially had two conscious brains. Madness resulted when these begin to interfere with each other or otherwise functioned independently. The left-sided localization of language by Broca in the 1860s complicated matters by showing that the two brain halves functioned differently. Broca argued that functional asymmetry was a reflection of man's capacity to “perfect” himself; soon, the left hemisphere was transformed into the superior, uniquely human side of the brain. Considerable effort then went into seeing how far the functions of the right hemisphere complemented those of the left. The resulting dichotomies of mind and brain interacted—and sometimes also conflicted—with “duality of mind” theories. In the 1880s, the Paris school of neurology helped bring about a revival of interest in these theories with its startling metalloscopy and hemihypnosis experiments.A section of this target article is devoted to the views of Hughlings Jackson. Jackson's physiological/philosophical writings on hemisphere specialization and mental duality largely set him outside of the rest of the 19th-century tradition. The article concludes that at least some of the data gathered in the 19th century might prove useful or interesting to certain investigators today. More important, it asks how far an awareness of the “time-bound” nature of 19th-century concepts should change the way in which one surveys the laterality scene today.

ON THE NON-DUALITY OF MIND.

The Lancet ◽  
1846 ◽  
Vol 47 (1171) ◽  
pp. 151-152
Author(s):  
J. Cattell
Keyword(s):  
Duality Of Mind

»Ich will euch Wahrheiten in die Ohren schreien«.

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Ole Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Physical Nature ◽  
Thomas Mann ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Human Being ◽  
High Demand ◽  
The Road ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Duality Of Mind

AbstractAround 1900 anthropological ›knowledge‹ is in high demand. In contrary to the Platonist-Christian tradition human being is no longer defined as a duality of ›mind‹ and ›body‹ but as pure biological and physical nature. At first glance Thomas Mann’s early writings seem to adapt this monist anthropological concept. His characters seem to be determined by their hereditary predispositions and seem to be part of an unavoidable process of ›degeneration‹. Within the scope of a close narratological reading this article shows, however, that the possession of anthropological knowledge is often not claimed by the narrator but by the fictive characters themselves. The analysis of the short novels Der kleine Herr Friedemann (Little Herr Friedemann) and Der Weg zum Friedhof (The Road to the Curchyard) exemplarily shows that Thomas Mann creates - already in his early works - a firmly modern way of writing that marks contemporary claims of anthropological knowledge as depending on perspective and as normative decisions with a limited validity.

ON THE NON-DUALITY OF MIND.

The Lancet ◽  
1846 ◽  
Vol 47 (1180) ◽  
pp. 405-407
Author(s):  
T CATTELL
Keyword(s):  
Duality Of Mind
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