Review of The role of bodily feelings in anxiety. Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Monographs, No. 23.

1976 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 899-899
Author(s):  
BRENDAN A. MAHER
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Author(s):  
Marco Caracciolo

This chapter surveys some of the key issues in the study of embodiment in literary reading. Recent research in psycholinguistics has called attention to the role of motor resonance and experiential models in understanding language—two psychological mechanisms often brought together under the heading of “embodied simulation.” How does literary reading, and particularly reading literary narrative, leverage these embodied phenomena? Does embodiment always matter in reading or only in specific circumstances? Building on linguist David Ritchie’s scalar account of embodied simulation, and using Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho as a case study, this chapter distinguishes among various types of embodied involvement and shows how they shape the experience of reading Ellis’s novel. It also draws attention to the question of consciousness, calling for empirical research on the interplay between unconscious processes and lived experience (mental imagery, bodily feelings, etc.) in engaging with literary narrative.


1977 ◽  
Vol 134 (3) ◽  
pp. 336-336
Author(s):  
WILLIAM E. THORNTON
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1978 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 566-567
Author(s):  
Charles P. Neumann
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1977 ◽  
Vol 11 (11-13) ◽  
pp. 675-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Shapiro
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1977 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 310-310
Author(s):  
I. M. Ingram
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Author(s):  
A. D. (Bud) Craig

This introductory chapter provides an overview of interoceptive awareness. The significance of interoceptive awareness of feelings from the body for human awareness of emotional feelings is a central tenet of so-called embodiment theories of emotion. A major distinguishing feature of emotion theories is whether emphasis is placed on the body or on the mind, reflecting the inherent dualism in Western culture. Embodiment theories of emotion relate emotions to the condition of bodies, and they are remarkably consistent with the pathways in brains that underlie bodily feelings and affective feelings. The embodiment theories of emotion emphasize the role of visceral sensation and autonomic activity in the body and brain as a causal source of emotional feelings. In other words, embodiment theories of emotion posit that feelings are generated by autonomic activity and emotional behaviors.


JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (12) ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Fernbach
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