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Peter Pan and the Mind of J. M. Barrie: An Exploration of Cognition and Consciousness

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By (author): Rosalind M. Ridley Rosalind Ridley

What is Peter Pan all about? Many of us realise that there is a bit more to the stories than a simple fantasy about flying away to a wonderful place in which to play, and that there is something psychologically rather dark about the events in the stories. But J. M. Barries work has not previously been considered from the perspective of either the science of his time, or the insights of modern cognitive psychology. This book explores the texts of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906) and Peter and Wendy (1911), and argues that Barrie describes the limited mental abilities of infants and animals in order to illuminate the structure of human adult cognition. Barrie had a well-informed, post-Darwinian perspective on the biological origins of human behaviour. The idea that human consciousness, cognition, culture and sense of moral responsibility could have origins in animal behaviour was deeply shocking to the nineteenth century intelligentsia, and remains controversial in some sections of academia even today. Barries work contains many insights into what is now referred to as mental representation and theory of mind, areas of cognitive psychology that have been examined scientifically only in the last few decades. Barrie also reflects on the nature of consciousness in a way that parallels modern interests. As books with a complex scientific undercurrent, Barries Peter Pan stories rank alongside Lewis Carrolls Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass, which engage with complex issues of mathematics and logic, and Charles Kingsleys The Water-Babies, which explores the implications of evolution for human society. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 148 x 212mm
  • Publication Date: 23 May 2016
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781443891073

About Rosalind M. RidleyRosalind Ridley

Rosalind Ridley MA ScD is a neuroscientist who spent many years working for the Medical Research Council in London and Cambridge. She is also a retired Fellow of Newnham College Cambridge. Her work was concerned with understanding the relationship between brain activity and cognition and its primary purpose was to develop medical treatments for psychological and neurological illnesses which in itself required consideration of the relationship between brain experience and behaviour the nature and purpose of consciousness and a broad understanding of biology and evolution. These themes can be found embedded in the works of J. M. Barrie and are explored extensively in this book about Peter Pan.

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