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• Preface
• Contents
• 1 Growing up in Copenhagen
• 1.1…Copenhagen, 1833
• 1.2…Jews in DenmarkDenmark
• 1.3…Family and Early Years
• 1.4…Education
• 1.5…Gazing into the Heavenly Light
• References
• 2 Psychology Without a Soul
• 2.1…The Lure of Metaphysical Longings
• 2.2…A Bon Papa Sort of Man
• 2.3…A Quality of Familiarity
• 2.4…Food for Thought
• 2.5…Tutorials in the Philosophical Factory
• References
• 3 Apprentice in Lehmann’s Laboratory
• 3.1…The Psychologist Dares not Experiment on the Soul
• 3.2…The Intrepid Experimenter
• 3.3…Aristotle and Socrates in Copenhagen
• 3.4…Ekliptika
• 3.5…Paradoxical Warmth
• 3.6…Magister Artium
• A.1. Appendix
• A.2. Edgar Rubin’s (1910) Syllabus for the Magister Artium Examination
• A.2.0 Psychology (Major Area)
• A.2.0 Older Classic Works
• A.2.0 Works on the History of Philosophy
• A.2.0 Logic
• A.2.0 Ethics
• References
• 4 Triumph and Tragedy in Academia
• 4.1…Sympathetic Understanding
• 4.2…Purgatory in Göttingen
• 4.3…Høffding’s Last Lecture
• 4.4…Rubin’s Revolution in Perception
• 4.4.1 Figure and Ground
• 4.4.2 The Areal Figure, The Contour, The Stroke
• 4.5…The Boat of My Soul Staggers
• 4.6…Høffding’s Successor
• References
• 5 Philosopher or Psychologist
• 5.1…Competing for a Professorate
• 5.2…The Metaphysician in Overalls
• 5.3…Lehmann’s Successor
• 5.4…The End of an Era
• 5.5…Drawn Unto the Gestalt Bandwagon
• References
• 6 The Aspective Psychologist
• 6.1…Explorations in the Human Sensorium
• 6.2…An Old-Fashioned Introspectionist
• 6.3…Playing the Part of Your Bad Conscience
• 6.4…Popularizing Psychology
• 6.5…Pest Over Europe
• 6.6…A Tastetaste for England
• 6.7…Aspective PsychologyAspective psychology
• 6.8…Occupation, Arrest, and the Flight to Sweden
• References
• 7 Final Years and Legacy
• 7.1…The Return from Sweden
• 7.2…Remembering Rubin
• 7.3…Rubin and Bohr
• 7.4…The Consummate Observer
• 7.5…Rubin’s VaseRubin’s Vase
• References
• Index
• Name Index