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Science Fiction and Psychology (Paperback)
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Science Fiction and Psychology (Paperback)
Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies, 62
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The psychologist may appear in science fiction as the herald of
utopia or dystopia; literary studies have used psychoanalytic
theories to interpret science fiction; and psychology has employed
science fiction as an educational medium. Science Fiction and
Psychology goes beyond such incidental observations and engagements
to offer an in-depth exploration of science fiction literature's
varied use of psychological discourses, beginning at the birth of
modern psychology in the late nineteenth century and concluding
with the ascendance of neuroscience in the late twentieth century.
Rather than dwelling on psychoanalytic readings, this literary
investigation combines with history of psychology to offer
attentive textual readings that explore five key psychological
schools: evolutionary psychology, psychoanalysis, behaviourism,
existential-humanism, and cognitivism. The varied functions of
psychological discourses in science fiction are explored, whether
to popularise and prophesy, to imagine utopia or dystopia, to
estrange our everyday reality, to comment on science fiction
itself, or to abet (or resist) the spread of psychological wisdom.
Science Fiction and Psychology also considers how psychology itself
has made use of science fiction in order to teach, to secure
legitimacy as a discipline, and to comment on the present.
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