What Makes Humans Unique Evolution and the Two Structures of Mind 1st Edition by Michael Robbins 9781000958416 1000958418

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• ISBN 10: 1000958418
• ISBN 13: 9781000958416
• Author:  Michael Robbins

Through an integrated multi-disciplinary theory, Michael Robbins proposes that the human mind consists of two mental structures: the one we share with other animate creatures and a capacity for reflective representational thought which is unique. As an alternative to Freud’s model of the human mind as structured by the id, ego, and superego, this book contends that the prolonged period of post-natal immaturity – otherwise known as neoteny – which is specific to humans, gives rise to reflective representational thought that in turn allows for the acquisition of complex knowledge. Robbins examines how Freud’s conception of the human mind was limited by his ignorance of the related disciplines of sociology, primatology, cultural anthropology, and most notably evolution, which were then in their infancy, to explore the implications of the non-unitary nature of the human mind for us as individuals, as a society, and for our future as a species. Drawing on a broad range of influences from psychoanalysis to anthropology, biology, psychology, sociology, and politics, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of these disciplines alike.

Table contents:

1 Psychoanalysis and the structures of mind
2 The mental structure humans share with other primates and the structure that is unique
3 History of the concept of two mental structures from psychoanalysis and other disciplines
4 The distinctive languages of each mental structure
5 The structure common to all species and its manifestations
6 Acquisition of the second mental structure during the separation phase of development
7 Limitation of the biological theory of evolution in understanding the origins of the second mental structure
8 Efforts to fit what makes humans unique into the biological theory of evolution lead to the need for a revision
9 The origins of social structure from mental structure: the social organization derived from the primordial structure
10 History of the parallel evolution of the second mental structure and the movement of human social organization from socio-centric to self-centric
11 The structural difference between neurosis and psychosis
12 Mental structure, social organization, and the complex interplay of socially constructive and destructive phenomena arising from them
13 Mental structures and the evolution of homo sapiens

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