Preface
1. The Objective Space of Meaning
Meaning
Conventional Psychology's Approach to Meaning
Descartes and the Rise of Modern Philosophy
Objectivistic Psychology
Inside and Outside in Modern Thought
Psychology as Philosophy
2. Phenomenology
Choices
The Lifeworld
Considerations of Method
Phenomenological Psychology
The Place of Everyday Meanings and Our Relation to Them
Phenomenology's Theory of Intentionality
3. Existence
Existential Phenomenology
Meaning, Involvement, World
The Present-at-Hand and Its Origin in the Ready-to-Hand
The World and Other People
Dasein: Openness to the World
4. The Existential Space of Meaning
Meaning and Existence
The Primacy of Perception
The Existential Space of Meaning
The Bodily Self
The Bodily Self's Familiarity with Lived Space
Closeness and Bringing Close
Place
The Existential and the Objective Spaces of Meaning
5. The Gestalt Logic of Meaning
The Notion of Gestalt
Gestalt Qualities
A Gestalt Is Not the Sum of Its Parts
A Gestalt as the Organization of Its Constituents
Gestalt Quality as the Gestalt Itself
A Gestalt Is Not More Than the Sum of Its Parts
Organization and Variability
The Complementarity of Gestalt Theory and Existential Thought
6. Requiredness
The Nonarbitrary Character of Meaning Formation
The Law of Good Gestalt
Requiredness
A Rose Is a Rose
Dynamics: Within the World
The Tenseness of the Good Gestalt
Hierarchy of Requirednesses
7. Value
Definition of Value
A Gestalt as Value Itself
The Demand Character of Value
The Nonsubjective Character of Value
Some Types of Value
Psychological Theories of Value
8. The Behavior of Insight
The Turn to Psychological Processes
Köhler on Insight
The Limitations of Köhler's Theory of Insight
A Phenomenological Theory of Insight
Insight into Value
Insight into Negative Requiredness
Manifestness of the Law of Requiredness
Insight's Privileged Status
The Nonoccurrence of Insight into Requiredness
9. Insight as Impact
Insight as Impact and as Interpreting
Impact as Being Affected by Meaning
Impact as the Mattering of Meaning
Impact as Difference Structurally Told upon One's Life
Impact as the Holding Sway of Meaning
10. Insight as Interpreting
Insight as the Activity of the Self
Interpreting and Situatedness
Interpreting as Imagining
The Paradox of the Self and Its Meanings
Insight as Responsible Situatedness
11. Feeling
The Temporal Circle of Impact-Interpreting
Disposition
Disposition, Feeling, Insight
The Positive or Negative Direction of Feeling
Feeling and the Bodily Self
Feeling No Inner Psychic State
Feeling and Knowing
An Illustration of Feeling: Fear
Disturbed Disposition
12. The Fulfillment of Gestalt Psychology
The Promise of a Nonobjectivistic Gestalt Psychology
Review of the Conventional Approach to Perception
Gestalt Psychology's Approach to Cognition
The Objectivism of Gestalt Psychology
Critique of the Objectivism of Gestalt Psychology
The Existential Phenomenological Alternative
13. The Variability and Validity of Meaning
The Decidability and Variability of Meaning
The Variability of Meaning and Its Validity
Interpreting, Variability, and Validity
Criteria for Judging Meaning's Validity
Balancing of Validities
Variability and Validity in Objective and Existential Space
14. The Self-Others-World System
Psychology Beyond the Subject-Object Split
The Bodily Self-World System
Structural Analysis of Behavior
The Bodily Self-Other Selves-World System
The Bodily Self-World System and Learning
The Bodily Self-World System and Remembering
The Bodily Self-World System and the Law of Good Gestalt
The Event of the Bodily Self-World System
Notes
References
Index
