1st Edition

The Psychology of Animals in Relation to Human Psychology

By F. Alverdes Copyright 1999
    164 Pages
    by Routledge

    164 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is Volume I of four in the Comparative Psychology series. First published in 1932, this study offers a short description of parts of animal psychology as are of interest to a wider public, at the same time exhibiting the many and various relations existing between human and animal psychology.

    Chapter 1 Difference between living and non-living nature.—The “End” (aim, object, purpose, goal) and the “Whole” as biological fictions.—“The End determines the Means”, and “the Whole determines the Parts”; Chapter 2 General remarks on scientific statement, and more concerning the fictional mode of regarding biological facts.—Consciousness, freedom of will, psyche; Chapter 3 Individuality—the ciliated slipper-animalcule (Paramecium) as individual; Chapter 4 More concerning the individuality of animals possessing numerous like organs of locomotion.—The free-swimming Turbellaria and Starfish; Chapter 5 The individuality of jointed animals, annelids, and arthropods.—The supposed antagonism between the right and left side of the body.—Theories of tropism, and the theory of tropotaxis; Chapter 6 Understanding and explaining.—The attempt at sympathetic understanding of animal behaviour.—Intra-central orientation and disorientation of animals.—Comparative physiology of the senses and nerves in animal psychology; Chapter 7 The animal’s grasp of wholes.—Super-individual wholes; Chapter 8 Primary and secondary knowledge.—Instinctive and experiential activity; Chapter 9 Instinct and experience in human beings.—Behaviour indicating insight in man and animals; Chapter 10 Animal sociology.—Superindividual wholes: marriage, family, society, in man and animals; Chapter 11 Spontaneity and attention.—Understanding and communication.—Emotion and emotional transference.—Personal familiarity.—The will to superiority; Chapter 12 The human being as investigating subject, and object of investigation;

    Biography

    Alverdes, F.