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Metis Nonfiction
Consciousness Studies
13 x 19.5 cm, 238 pp
ISBN No. 978-975-342-607-7
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1st Print: April 2007
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About the Author
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Saffet Murat Tura is a practicing psychoanalyst, trained as a physiologist and psychiatrist.
He is the founder of Imago Center for Psychotherapy in Istanbul. In addition to
his scientific publications in Turkey and abroad, he has published articles on philosophy
and politics. Tura is the editor of the “Listening to the Other” series in Metis,
which consists of careful translations of classical psychoanalytic works. Tura has
published four books: Freud’dan Lacan’a Psikanaliz (Psychoanalysis from Freud
to Lacan, 1989; revised in 1996), Günümüzde Psikoterapi (Psychotherapy Today,
2001); Şeyh ve Arzu (Sheikh and Desire, 2002) and most recently Histerik Bilinç
(Hysterical Consciousness, 2007).
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Other Books from Metis
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Günümüzde Psikoterapi (Psychotherapy Today), 2000
Şeyh ve Arzu (Sheikh and Desire), 2002
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Saffet Murat Tura
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Hysterical Consciousness
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Histerik Bilinç
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Contents
Reviews
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The question at the heart of this very original contribution to the field of consciousness
studies is: As material bodies made up of atoms, how come we possess an inner world,
inner lives, a “phenomenal consciousness”? Why are we not biological automatons?
Further questions arise: Is it possible for phenomena of consciousness, such as
emotions, thoughts and perceptions to have an effect on the brain’s neural activities
that have physiochemical bases? Does consciousness have physical effects? That is,
what kind of an organization of matter lies at the source of consciousness? Is there
“free will”?
Rather than finding answers that settle
these questions once and for all, the book aims to tend to these questions as problems
that can be elaborated and debated scientifically. Tura’s point of departure is
the intuition that hysteria could serve as the key to the mystery of consciousness.
Illustrating hysteria with reference to several case stories, Tura asks: “If the
brain is indeed able to operate non-consciously and form reaction behavior without
a phenomenal life, what use is there for phenomenal consciousness in terms of biological
functionality?”
Drawing on a wide range of disciplines
from psychiatry to physiology, from neurology to quantum physics, the spirit of
inquiry and fascination in this work of “experimental philosophy” is contagious.
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Acknowledgements
Part I CONVENTIONAL APPROACH
Foreword
The Problem of Brain-Consciousness
A Disorder of Phenomenal Consciousness: “Mysterious” Hysteria
Non-conscious and The Unconscious
Brain and its Psychology
Dim Knowledge
Feelings
Experiment and Intuition
Part II THEORETICAL APPROACH
Matter and Consciousness
First Hypothesis: How is Phenomenal Consciousness Possible?
Second Hypothesis: Free Will
Third Hypothesis: Consciousness and Time
Afterword
Bibliography
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Mahmut Temizyürek, Radikal Kitap Eki, 15 June 2007
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“Tura problematizes consciousness, inner life as part of the material universe.
Rather than introducing science of consciousness to the Turkish reader, he offers
an original contribution to the field. The issue at hand is complex indeed but the
author succeeds in making it accessible to a wide readership. To this end Tura masterfully
mobilizes a broad range of disciplines including philosophy, psychology, psychoanalytic
theory, physics, neuroscience, physiology, biology, computer science, clinical neurology
and psychiatry. ...In every page of Hysterical Consciousness we encounter a scientist
who converses with his readers, guides them through his venture of thought, convinces
even the amateur reader to cast aside their inhibitions and join him in this venture
– a philosopher who is at once tender and daring.”
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