Psychologies of Mind The Collected Papers of John Maze

John Maze was a giant among philosophers of psychology. This exciting, new collection of his published work demonstrates that what is seemingly new in psychology is so often not new at all but frequently consists of ill-informed corruptions of earlier, discarded, misguided attempts. Their collection together is timely in the current, innovatory era of cross-disciplinary exploration and integration on the borderlands of psychology and philosophy, where there is a visible danger that the welcome loosening of barriers to mutual communication also generates some 'wild' theorizing, familiar enough in the history of psychology itself. A corpus remarkable for its coherence, intellectual virtuosity and radicalism over 50 years, it speaks meaningfully to the wide range of psychological theory throughout its history up to the present day. Written with elegance and eloquence, the essays entail a thoroughgoing critical analysis of the most detrimental philosophical erroers of academic psychology in the 20th century, the relegation to history by the 20th century academy of some of the conceptually most promising lines of research, the cost that has been borne by the discipline of psychology, and the most promising future direction for the discipline. >

Introduction by Rachael Henry  Part One: The Concept of Motivation  Introduction Rachael Henry Instincts and impulses J.R. Maze (1952) First published by The Australian Psychological Society Ltd, in Australian Journal of Psychology, 4, 77-93. On some corruptions of the doctrine of homeostasis J.R. Maze (1953) First published by the American Psychological Association, in Psychological Review, 60, 405-412. Do intervening variables intervene? J. R. Maze (1954) First published by the American Psychological Association, in Psychological Review, 61, 226-234. The concept of attitude J. R. Maze (1973) First published by Taylor & Francis Ltd, in Inquiry, 16, 168-205. The composition of the ego in a determinist psychology J. R. Maze (1987a) First published by Elsevier Science Publishers B. V. (North Holland), in Wm. J. Baker et al. (eds.), Current Issues in Psychological Theory. John Anderson: Implications of his philosophic views for psychology J.R. Maze (1987b) First published in Dialectic (Journal of the University of Newcastle Philosophy Club), 30, 50-59. Part Two: Epistemology and the Nature of Cognition  Introduction Rachael Henry Representationism, realism and the redundancy of ‘mentalese' J. R. Maze (1991) First published by SAGE Publications, in Theory & Psychology, 1, 163-185. Psychoanalysis, epistemology and intersubjectivity: theories of Wilfred Bion J. R. Maze & R. M. Henry (1996a) First published by SAGE Publications, in Theory & Psychology, 6, 401-421. Social constructionism, deconstructionism and some requirements of discourse J. R. Maze (2001) First published by SAGE Publications, in Theory & Psychology, 11, 393-417. Part Three: Psychoanalytic Metapsychology  Introduction Rachael Henry The complementarity of object-relations and instinct theory J. R. Maze (1993) First published by Wiley-Blackwell, in International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 74, 459-470. Problems in the concept of repression and proposals for their resolution J. R. Maze & R. M. Henry (1996b) First published by Wiley-Blackwell, in International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 77, 1085-1100. Part Four: Psychoanalytic Readings of Literature, History and Art Introduction Rachael Henry Dostoevsky's problems with the concept of conscience: Svidrigailov and Raskolnikov J. R. Maze (1979) First Published by Wiley-Blackwell, in International Review of Psychoanalysis, 6, 499-509. Dostoyevsky: Epilepsy, mysticism and homosexuality J. R. Maze (1981b) First published by The John Hopkins University Press, in American Imago, 38:2, 155-184. Classical female Oedipal themes in To the Lighthouse J. R. Maze (1981a) First published by Wiley-Blackwell, in International Review of Psychoanalysis, 8, 155-171. Virginia Woolf: Ideas of marriage and death in The Voyage OutJ. R. Maze (1983) First published by Wiley-Blackwell, in International Review of Psychoanalysis, 10, 95-104. Harold L. Ickes: a psychohistorical perspective J. R. Maze & G. J. White (1981) First published by The Institute for Psychohistory, in The Journal of Psychohistory, 8, 421-446. A grammar of painting? J.R. Maze (1973) First published in The Arna (Journal of the Sydney Arts Students Society), 19, 26-32.