This book is an effort to bring genetic-phenomenological
analyses in contact with empirical psychology, neurology, cognitive
science and research in primate cognition. The first part adresses
the role of weak but not arbitrary phantasy in perception, and
argues that it has a transcendental function with several different
aspects. Weak phantasma can be found in all fields of sensibility
and at all levels of constitution. Relevant aspects of
Charles-Bonnet Syndrome are analyzed in addition to the
contributions of empirical psychology to our understanding of
hallucinations in normal subjects. The second part is dedicated to
the process of self-organization in human and animal perception
from the point of view of genetic phenomenology, concentrating on
the formation, change and use of the so-called "types" (Typus). The
third part investigates whether cognition, thinking and other
higher order performances of the mind - both human and animal - can
be understood by taking into account the contributions of
phantasmatic elements in three important fields: scenic imagination
in daydreams, feelings, and co-feeling with others. To this end
dual-mode theories of mind and some contributions from neurology
are taken into account. The conclusion reached is that most
higher-order achievements of our mind - which we tend to identify
with the performance of our language-system - might in fact be
accomplished without language in the low-level system of
phantasmatic imagination. This leads to an "inclusive theory of the
subject" which allows us to understand how higher-organized animals
like primates can think.
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