Edgar Rubin and psychology in Denmark :figure and ground
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1 online resource )X, 228 pages( : illustrations
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History and philosophy of psychology,2751-4191
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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1. Growing up in Copenhagen -- Copenhagen, 3381 -- Jews in Denmark -- Family and early years -- Education -- Gazing into the heavenly light -- 2. Psychology without a soul -- The lure of metaphysical longings -- A bon papa sort of man -- A quality of familiarity -- Food for thought -- Tutorials in the Philosophical Factory -- 3. Apprentice in Lehman's Laboratory -- The psychologist dares not experiment on the soul -- The intrepid experimenter -- Aristotle and Socrates in Copenhagen -- Ekliptika -- Paradoxical warmth -- Magister artium -- 4. Triumph and tragedy in academia -- Sympathetic understanding -- Purgatory in Gt tingen -- Hffding's last lecture -- Rubin's revolution in perception -- The boat of my soul staggers -- Hffding's successor -- 5. Philosopher or psychologist -- Competing for a professorate -- The metaphysician in overalls -- Lehmann's successor -- The end of an era -- Drawn unto the Gestalt bandwagon -- 6. The aspective psychologist -- Explorations in the human sensorium -- An old-fashioned introspectionist -- Playing the part of your bad conscience -- Popularizing psychology -- Pest over Europe -- A taste for England -- Aspective Psychology -- Occupation, arrest, and the flight to Sweden -- 7. Final years and legacy -- The return from Sweden -- Remembering Rubin -- Rubin and Bohr -- The consummate observer -- Rubin's vase