For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience
Book Details
- Publisher : Bloomsbury
- Published : 2020
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 200
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 97854
- ISBN 13 : 9781501367588
- ISBN 10 : 1501367587
Reviews and Endorsements
If the purpose of learning is to better predict how to meet your needs in the world, then what is the purpose of art? This fascinating book explores how the brain deals with things that are inherently ambiguous and unpredictable, and therefore cannot be mastered through learning.
Interestingly, as this book reveals, such things abound in aesthetic experience.
Mark Solms, Professor and Director of Neuropsychology, Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa