By doing history of psychology, we occasionally find areas of inquiry that have been forgotten in contemporary psychological language. One of these themes is fantasy. In this lecture I present some major contributions to fantasy before the establishment of scientific psychology. The exploration will begin with J.W. Goethe’s (1810) fourfold conception of the human soul: fantasy [Einbildungskraft...

Wilf et al. (1998) analyzed leaf sizes in modern vegetation and concluded that leaf sizes accurately predict mean annual precipitation (MAP). However, we question the methods employed by these authors to derive leaf size; the modern samples are not comparable to one another or to fossil leaf assemblages, and the influence of temperature on leaf size is ignored. Data for some samples were derive...

Abstract. As atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and temperatures increase with modern climate change, ancient hothouse periods become a focal point for understanding ecosystem function under similar conditions. The early Eocene exhibited high temperatures, CO2 levels, tectonic plate configuration as today, so it has been invoked an analog to change. During the Eocene, greater Green River Basin (G...

Modern languages have developed linguistic patterns that are often in consonance with the epistemic knowledge of the world. For the main part, epistemic knowledge is inferred from such linguistic patterns. In some situations however, dissonance occurs between linguistic inference and epistemic inference. When this happens, language compensates by utilizing certain linguistic patterns and rhetor...

In a letter sent to the Gazette des beaux-arts in 1863,1Viardot L. Cinq études d'aliénés. In: La Chronique arts et de la curiosité: supplement à beaux-arts, 1864.Google Scholar art historian Louis Viardot described five portraits he had discovered, which been painted by Théodore Géricault (1791–1824), master of French Romanticism. They portrayed patients with different so-called monomanias, as ...

Disability as Metaphor and Lived Experience in Samuel Richardson's Pamela Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall Jason S. Farr (bio) studies scholars often champion the investigation of lived experiences disability over metaphor. In Theory, for instance, Tobin Siebers historicizes disabled bodies part because metaphor converts into something else.1 Given exclusionary nature ableist metaphors, adopts this...

One of the resolutions adopted by the July-August 2004 56th session of the United Nations Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (www.un.org/news/press/docs/2004/ hcrn110/doc.htm) was the call for a working paper on ‘Discrimination against leprosy victims and their families’. The term ‘discrimination’ embraces most, but not all, facets of the concept and impact of leprosy...

We present the first analysis of riparian vegetation types on the Arctic Slope of Alaska including classification and ordination. We classified riparian willow communities according to the Braun-Blanquet approach, and analysed environmental relationships of associations to complex environmental gradients using Detrended Correspondence Analysis. We also examined synecological differences in term...

Introduction The pathogenesis of the dento-maxillary apparatus includes dento-maxillary anomalies as a significant anomaly. These are considered deviations to the normal evolution of the dentomaxillary apparatus, being conditioned by various general and particular factors presenting a multifarious etiopathogenetic mechanism (Schapira 1973). Dento-maxillary anomalies could generate periodontal d...