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Introspectionist

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In`tro`spec´tion`ist
n.1.(Metaph.) One given to the introspective method of examining the phenomena of the soul.


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Against positions denying that stimulus or response are psychological primitives, Kantor (1969) pointed out that even psychologists with the most mentalistic and introspectionist leanings study "the reactions [responses] of certain persons, called subjects, to certain things, called stimulus objects" (p.
When the introspectionist thinks he has withdrawn into a wholly private realm of events disparate in kind from other events, made out of mental stuff, he is only turning his attention to his own soliloquy.
His own lyric poetry, an inspiring influence on the younger Introspectionist poets who emerged after World War I, tends toward a neo-Wordsworthian and Symbolist love of nature, of "mountain storms" and "evening sounds" and "the maid of the mist," a reverie on a seductive maiden dancing in the mist above Niagara Falls; he favored fables and gnomic stories and exotic (for New York Yiddish audience)Japanese and Chinese motifs.
 
 
 
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