"In the old days, of course, it would have been Romanticism and the Spiritual (or the mental, the psychological, the ideal, the immaterial, the metaphysical)." This time around we are "getting physical with Romanticism," he writes.
In her book "Reality Is Broken," Jane McGonigal argues that play is possibly the best, healthiest, most productive activity a human can undertake — a gateway to our ideal psychological state.
Image acquisition can be started up to some hours after administration still representing the brain distribution of the radiopharmaceutical at the moment of injection allowing for experiments to be performed in ideal psychological conditions in a quiet environment outside of the camera gantry.
I vividly remember the undergraduate lecture where I first heard the story of psychologist Stanley Milgram, and of the serious implication that lab coats produce a particular environmental effect that is less than ideal for psychological experiments.
Just as the values of freedom and democracy had animated previous generations of activists and statesmen, the ideal of psychological well-being, he argued, now provided the basis of a new political programme.
A second introductory essay, by Oisín Wall, discusses the historical use of psychological tests to enforce normative ideals and weed out the "abnormal or deviant".
While psychological realism interested him, his ideal was verbal clarity and resonance.
Baldassare Castiglione, in his highly influential Il cortegiano (The Courtier), developed in his ideal courtier a psychological model for active virtue, stressing moral awareness as a key element in just action.
The symbolism of music, she contended, is therefore tonal (or, at its broadest, auditory) in character and can be realized only in time; in psychological experience, time assumes an ideal guise.
