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Maps, charts, graphs all diagrams are used by us to organize our experience of the world outside. Our senses coordinate information from our surroundings and organize it often in linear form so that we can know where we are and go from A to B in any situation. The authors of this book suggest an exciting method for applying the diagram to our internal world of thoughts, ideas, feelings and emotions. Diagramming an inner situation will, they argue, not only help us to understand an attitude or feeling, but will also put us into touch with our innermost organizing mechanism, whether we call it soul, spirit, psyche, mind or cerebral cortex. The way we experience the world, our perception of it and our perception mechanisms, contributes to the construction of our diagram; models, games, the ambivalence of coincidence, the relation between personality and cosmology all these are topics round which important sections of the book are constructed and which are the basis of the excitement the authors convey so invitingly. A diagram, they say, is not an idea but a model of it, intended to clarify, in the way a map does, characteristic features of the terrain, inner or outer. Humans have

Author

Keith; Smith Albarn; Jenny Miall Smith

Publisher

Thames & Hudson Ltd

Published

1979

Language

EN

ISBN

9780500270967

Subjects

Psychology, Social_sciences

Updated

2026-03-24