Psychology as Metaphor

includes index and biblioraphy

Introduction Opening remarks The distinction between philosophy and rhetoric The rhetoric of anti-rhetoric What is this thing called psychology? Metaphor, Rhetoric and Analysis Science and literature Studying the rhetoric of science Final words Part I Metaphor 3 Memory after Lashley: Metaphors as Promissory Notes Introduction The description of the problem in 1950 An `older type of theory` A problem and its answer Promises currently outstanding Conclusions 4. Comparing Concepts of Development: Metaphor and Presupposition Wundt Psychoanalysis Behaviourism Piaget Vygotsky Merleau-Ponty The conceptual child Conclusions 5 Accounting for Emotion: Metaphor as System The thesis of metaphors of emotion The instinct account The behavioural account The learning account The choice account Conclusions 6 The Theory of Metaphor: The Extension of Discourse 105 Enrolling Heidegger 107 Towards an account of metaphor 110 Derrida on philosophical discourse 112 Reconciling Black and Wittgenstein 117 The thesis of metaphor as extension of discourse 119 Part II Rhetoric 7 The Rhetoric of Validity in the IQ Debate 123 A case-study of the IQ debate 123 Historical background 124 `Sketch of the skeleton of the mind` 127 The repetition of numbers 129 More on the present debate 131 Analysing the critic 133 Conclusions 135 8 James and Freud on the Mind: Metaphor and Rhetoric as Enrolment 138 An overview of two metaphors of the mind 140 Enrolling the reader 142 Promissory notes 149 9 Describing Psychological Objects: Concluding Discussion 154