Table of Contents
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgements and Credits
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 – Introduction to the understanding of archetypal constellations through the lens of Primordial Mental Activity
Part I – How discussing the structure, affective charging, and functioning of the body within the occurrence of archetypal constellations can support the developmental view of archetypes
Chapter 2 – Exploring the origins of symbolic thinking: the intelligibility of the sensing and feeling brain
Chapter 3 – PMA (Primordial Mental Activity): The affective-somatic unconscious
Chapter 4 – Archetypal imagery as mainly channelled by mental representations that mediate the here-now from partial simulations of the past, awakening or reliving the affectivity that marked it, and the background cognitive capacity that (by then) targeted its metabolisation
Chapter 5 – Affects, sounds, images, and actions: addressing the developmental formation and activation of archetypes through the consideration of image-schemas and PMA
Chapter 6 – The comparison of PMA to the fantasy-thinking mind
Conclusion to Part I
Part II – Impressions and expressions of the body’s mind in mystical experiences and Arts
Chapter 7 – Proximities and distances between mental illness and mysticism
Chapter 8 – Mystical experiences of the Ayahuasca consumption – the Brazilian Santo Daime doctrine and European neo-shamanism
Chapter 9 – Witnessing PMA operations: the activation of archetypes in [neo]shamanic practices
Chapter 10 – Arts and psychosis: Comprehending PMA expressions in their association
Chapter 11 – Interpreting PMA in artistic creations: primary metaphors on canvases
Conclusion to Part II
Part III – Affects, image schematic compounds, and patterns of behaviour – Links between body, concept, and culture
Chapter 12 – Conclusions: Understanding affective, non-verbal matrices of the making of meaning
Chapter 13 – Further researchIndex