Book contents
- The Pleasure of Thinking
- The Pleasure of Thinking
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword
- Chapter 1 The Pleasure of Thought
- Chapter 2 On the Emergence of Pleasurable Thinking
- Chapter 3 Thinking the Pleasures with Psychoanalysis
- Chapter 4 Thinking in Sociocultural Psychology
- Chapter 5 Thinking through the Psyche
- Chapter 6 The Pleasure of Thinking in Diverse Experiences
- Chapter 7 Trajectories of Pleasures in Thinking
- Chapter 8 Thinking Forward
- Notes
- References
- Index
Chapter 6 - The Pleasure of Thinking in Diverse Experiences
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2023
- The Pleasure of Thinking
- The Pleasure of Thinking
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword
- Chapter 1 The Pleasure of Thought
- Chapter 2 On the Emergence of Pleasurable Thinking
- Chapter 3 Thinking the Pleasures with Psychoanalysis
- Chapter 4 Thinking in Sociocultural Psychology
- Chapter 5 Thinking through the Psyche
- Chapter 6 The Pleasure of Thinking in Diverse Experiences
- Chapter 7 Trajectories of Pleasures in Thinking
- Chapter 8 Thinking Forward
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
Thinking encompasses a very wide range of phenomena. Chapter 6 first comes back to a study focused on the pleasure of thinking itself. Pleasure is then examined in three modes of thinking: sense-making, reasoning, and daydreaming. Second, as acts of thinking are always situated in specific activities and anchored in various domains of experience, the chapter distinguishes various domains of knowledge: all are complex semiotic systems, culturally mediated, which can be more or less culturally shared and formalised. Third, the chapter examines trajectories of thinking in many systems of knowledge, formal or informal; starting with daily modes of thinking and their pleasures, it examines the pleasures of thinking in professional thinkers before exploring a specific form of sense-making connected to personal experiences. Altogether, this chapter shows that trajectories of thinking are dynamic and that they intermesh elements from a diversity of knowledge systems, moving along various modalities of pleasure.
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- The Pleasure of Thinking , pp. 164 - 183Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023