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associationism, theory that all consciousness is the result of the combination, in accordance with the law of association association, in psychology, a connection between different sensations, feelings, or ideas by virtue of their previous occurrence together in experience. The concept of association entered contemporary psychology through the empiricist philosophers John Locke, George ..... Click the link for more information. , of certain simple and ultimate elements derived from sense experiences. It was developed by David Hartley Hartley, David, 1705–57, English physician and philosopher, founder of associational psychology. In his Observations on Man (2 vol., 1749) he stated that all mental phenomena are due to sensations arising from vibrations of the white medullary substance ..... Click the link for more information. and advanced by James Mill Mill, James, 1773–1836, British philosopher, economist, and historian, b. Scotland; father of John Stuart Mill. Educated as a clergyman at Edinburgh through the patronage of Sir John Stuart, Mill gave up the ministry and went to London in 1802 to pursue a ..... Click the link for more information. . |
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In the pages that follow, I will argue that the circulation of migrants around the Caribbean spread both knowledge of and need for voluntary associations, and that British moral reform and black solidarity movements alike were part of this broader phenomenon, of associationism in pursuit of self-improvement and collective advance. Associationism has not been able to explain individual differences in susceptibility to sexuopathology. Rather than upon the narration, then, More's attack on Proust focuses upon this associationism, which he ascribes oddly to "an older discredited psychology" (55) and depicts as mental anarchy, a mind without logos. |
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