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Thus, it seems that Hughes figures the pre-psychology of his relationship with Plath in terms of her being a victim and him just being bored.

There seems to be a tendency throughout the essays to take “evidence”—texts—at face value, and to resort to psychology when what is called for is theory.

So there’s no main verb here. Sorry about that. It’s wonderfully vivid in its psychology: as Juliet imagines each possible scenario – here, waking up alone, in the dark, before

In my last post I tried out a way of thinking about the replication crisis in psychology from a literary critic’s perspective. ... And then today I read about this latest failed attempt to reproduce a famous finding in social psychology.

Ed Yong, ‘Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Running Out of Excuses’, The Atlantic, 19th Nov 2018:. ... It isn’t scornful in doing so, but it clearly thinks that the failure of 50% of these replications poses a severe challenge to the scientific

well. The book in question is Recreative Minds: Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology (Oxford University Press, 2002).

Shakespeare was clearly familiar with the principles of faculty psychology handed down to the Renaissance from antiquity, according to which “imagination” is the part of the soul responsible for creating “phantasms”

Affect and Psychology in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene. Organizer: Scott C.

One of the things they are commonly thought to know about is psychology (motives, emotions, etc.)..

the Wellcome Collection in London puts together art and psychology, focusing especially on the fringes of consciousness.