RLGN 2030 Lecture 17: march 29
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Harris: generative (imaginary world, special processing, magical thinking, infusion affect, semi-permeable boundary. Gleason-imaginary relationships (ir: reciprocity, emotions, social bene ts, imaginary companions, diary companions, ctional characters, wholly imagined, developmental pattern. Imaginary interaction (ii: rooted in real people, when you think about relationships with people. Gleason gets pulled in multiple directions and makes a contradictory claims. She claims that these relationships are wholly and fully imagined, but she also claims that they are rooted in the social world and are symbolic. This is not possible because symbols cannot be completely imagined. Even though someone is standing right in front of me, i am still interacting with my imagined version of them. We live largely in the imagination and rarely have access to reality.