Dissertation working outline 20061023


Re-visioning Conflict

Overview

Introduction

Ch 1 The Emergence of the Process Arts, a review of literature

Hillman and...

gods

Art

Community

Conflict

Peace

Thomas Moore

David Miller

Wolfgang Giegerich

Greg Mogenson

Arnold Mindell

George Lakoff

David Kidner

William Doty

David Mamet

Sam Keen

Paul Kugler

Joseph Campbell

Dan Noel - From the Liberal to the Process Arts

Additional Authors to be considered together:
S Freud, CG Jung, ML von Franz, Dennis Slattery, Ed Casey, P Roszak, T Driver, D&L Cowan, R Bly, M Eliade, W Doniger, G

Bachelard, T Zeldin, H Corbin, P Berry, R Romanyshyn, W Berry, M Prechtel, Huston Smith,

Authors who will supply supporting references througout:
J. Hillis Miller, A Dundes, Rumi (Barkes), Rilke, T Merton, T Nh’ăt Hanh, M Ueshiba, J Miles, F Turner, S Schama, G Paris


Organizing what’s ahead



CH 2 Process Arts: beneficent open source developmentalism

Introducing dreams, themes, and micromyths/memes

Polytheism, Monotheism, and the Nuclear Imagination

Industry, Progress, and Information

Nationalism, War, and Terror

Psychology, Mythology, and Associative Inquiry

Available wisdom and other dreams

Running At Depth – the brilliance of wormwood and gall, an example

Theoretically Ecologizing the Fictional Process, or a place for thinking of home



CH 3 Culturopoesis: manifesting the context and movements of ideas

Introduction

the Idea of Epochal Narrative

From prehistory into the images of Hunters, Gatherers, and Farmers

Imagining Hunting and Gathering

Farming & Husbandry: Cultivating Civilization

Empire

Enlightenment

Consciousness, Sight, and the interpretative mirroring of history

Example fugue

modernity, individualism, and psychoanalysis

From Enlightenment to Consumptive Rationalism

Scientistic Psychology

Post-Jungian Psychology

Dream, Mirror, and Representation

Bureaucracy, Absurdity and Bootless Foolery

Mythicity, or, ongoing postally modern



CH 4 Healing Friction: the Drama of Business as Unusual

Introduction

Government, Politics, and the Healing Friction Initiative

Association Cultural Movement and Education – a high point in depth

Virtual and Actual Organization

Associative Inquiry: mapping and returning to Imagined Terrain – more to come



CH 5 Bluevolution: Neo-shamanism, New Monasticism, and the new god image

Following submerged images into their own twilight



CH 6 Guardianship of Peace: ambivalent heroism on purpose

Guidance and Education

Children: Montessori & Steiner vs. the Prussian Military

Action and Performance

Mediation

Martial Artistry



Appendixes, and Hidden Bonus Tracks

Word Complexes

Healing Friction Initiative as Cultural Activism

Abbreviations

Works Cited

Notes