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Literature and the Brain by Norman N. Holland

By Norman N. Holland

LITERATURE AND THE mind is going directly to the human center of literature whilst it explains the various methods our brains convert tales, poems, performs, and flicks into excitement. after we are deep right into a movie or booklet, we discover ourselves "absorbed," ignorant of bodies or our environment. we do not doubt the lifestyles of Spider-Man or Harry Potter, and we've actual emotions approximately those simply imaginary beings. Our brains are behaving oddly, simply because we all know we can't act to alter what we're seeing. this is often just one of the targeted methods our brains behave to with literature, ways in which LITERATURE AND THE mind unearths. 474 pp. thirteen unwell.

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They will not be welcome, for ideas and feelings become unconscious because they are painful. The psychoanalyst’s (and the patient’s) interpretation of themes resembles what literary critics sometimes do. That is the reason I have found psychoanalysis so congenial and (I say it with postmodern hesitation) true. Whether psychoanalytic insight leads to a therapeutic result is, of course, another question altogether. Neuropsychoanalysts try to live up to both halves of their name. They want to observe neurological symptoms but also to listen to what the symptoms mean to the patient.

We don’t think of the things we see (like books or plays) as lying up against our retinas. Yet so far as our minds and brains are concerned, all we know of those objects does in fact lie on our retinas, our eardrums, or our skins. All we know of the world beyond our own bodies is sensations. Neurologist Todd Feinberg states the evolution of this adaptation: [M]illions of years of evolution have established that the neural states caused by outside objects will automatically cause the animals to respond in a fashion appropriate to where the stimuli are in the world, not where the neural states really are which is in the brain.

We imagine; and we let literature and other media help our imagining. Orality Our infantile pleasure was oral. Specifically, we took something into our mouths that quieted our hunger. Curiously, or perhaps not so curiously, even as adults we associate reading with eating, as when we call a man who “devours books” a “voracious” reader. We “take in” a movie. ” One of Shakespeare’s pedants says of a dullard: “[H]e hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book. He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink.

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