1. Responding to Offensive Miscon
Lance Newman founds his reading of Thoreau upon an ecocriticism that emphasizes as "the central axiom in its critical theory" a "direct contradiction" of the claims of "poststructuralist" theories reducing the world to language. ... However, in order to locate "the nonlinguistic material world" in Thoreau's writing, Newman draws upon an ecocritical literacy that remains ironically illiterate in its critical assumptions. ... Though I share Phillips's belief that "we need to cure ecocriticism of its fundamentalist fixation on literal representation," the larger theory and critique of e...
It is difficult for a person being abused to admit that feelings betray their emotions and lead to irrational thinking. ... Loss aversion is defined as a perception of loss that causes you to do something irrational. ... If this person keeps thinking that it will get better, then they are chasing the possibility of a future gain. ... When morality comes in to play, this kind of self-centered thinking backfires. ... The emotional brain can be useful to us in making critical decisions, it is capable of processing a wide amount of information on different parallels, and thus can present varying...
The processes of knowing, attending, thinking, remembering, solving problems, fantasizing and understanding. ... There are different levels of consciousness: non-conscious, handles information that is not represented in consciousness or memory but critical to bodily and mental activity, such as data needed to breath and control your heartbeat. ... The human mind and its ability for cognitive mental processes like perception; memory, language, problem solving and abstract thinking are what make it (the mind) so amazing. ... When we solve problems, we engage in a form of thinking that is cal...