The Centrality of Aesthetics for Psychology: Sciences and Arts United Through Poetic Instants

Lehmann, Olga V.; Klempe, Sven Hroar

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“…Ruptures of high emotional arousal which both tense and expand the potentiality of meanings of an experience. Such can be considered under the notion of poetic instants (Lehmann, 2015;2018b;Lehmann & Klempe, 2016;Lehmann & Klempe, 2017;Lehmann & Brinkmann, 2019a). The notion of poetic instants refers to lived-experiences where the emotional experience exceeds any verbal description.…”

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SILENCE: Capturing the Feeling of Inner Quietude

Røgild-Müller

2021

Integr. psych. behav.

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Silent experiences are integral parts of human life, and despite moments of silencephenomena may falsely be perceived as moments of "nothings", they are in fact an essential part of human apperception and meaning-making. The significance of moments of silence (an internal, timeless state of being often perceived as solitary, spiritual-mystical, and unconscious, involuntary experiences) and silences (contextual states of temporally oriented and social experiences) is supported by the principles behind the concepts of Gestalten and zero signifiers, in that such absence can lead to greater understanding of meaning than any explicit and direct element ever could. Aesthetic experiences can in the form of poetic instants lead to moments of silence, through the human function of Einfühlung. Such process of feeling in and through the object, whether this be somebody else, an object of some sort, or a part of one's dialogical self, can lead to instances of silence, a moment beyond chronological time trajectories. The self itself is polyphony, containing diverse I-positions which discuss and relate to each other, but each also containing multiple voices leading the self in different directions, with constant evaluation and a dialectic process. The phenomena of silence and poetic instants exist as hyper-generalized feeling fields beyond verbal descriptions. They are phenomena which as any other part of human life unfold within the present moment in irreversible time, but as well beyond such time trajectories in the depth and height of the experience. Human beings constantly feel into and through life into themselves, a process unfolding in time supporting the dialectic nature of the self. The current study investigates the phenomenon of silence in an attempt to expand the existing scholarly knowledge about this essential phenomenon of human life, which still scholarly is surround by much unclarity. It is a study of how silence is an essential, inseparable, and naturally occurring part of human life, embedded in the function of meaning-making and understanding of life. The study contains an analysis of a passage from Lev Vygotsky's personal notebook, which in recent years has been made accessible through the translation by Ekaterina Zavershneva and René van der Veer, as well as a discussion of societal enhancement and hindrance of silence and poetic instants will support exactly this centrality of the existence of silence.

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Section: Silence Of Aesthetic Experiencesmentioning

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SILENCE: Capturing the Feeling of Inner Quietude

Røgild-Müller

2021

Integr. psych. behav.

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“…Do not ever renounce to poetry, even when it seems like life cannot keep its word, has been your truly heroic act, the biggest act of love that you have accomplished. (D’Avenia, 2016, p. 68)Such a holistic approach to experience and existence, which aesthetics can convey, resembles also the quest of cultural psychology when theorizing upon psychological processes (Lehmann & Klempe, 2016). The poetic outstands, once more, as a resource that we can use more consistently.…”

Section: Exploring the Poetic Narratives Of The Bookmentioning

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Revisiting “The Art of Being Fragile”: Why cultural psychology needs literature and poetry

Lehmann

Brinkmann

2019

Culture & Psychology

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Writers devote their lives to find words that faithfully resemble what is at the core of human experience and existence. Thus, psychologists interested in understanding human development in everyday life could turn toward writers and poets with humble curiosity. In this article, we illustrate how a narrative analysis of a work of art can be done, taking “ The Art of Being Fragile. How Leopardi can Save your Life” by the Italian writer and teacher Alessandro D’Avenia as a case. In addition, we reflect upon the mastery with which the author sheds light on aspects that theories in cultural psychology have tried to unveil. Such aspects are: (a) poetic activism: a revolution of the poetics of everyday life; (b) the poetics of human development; (c) the beauty within the fragile as a master; and (d) the intuition of the spirit as an invitation.

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“…Besides, the aesthetic dimension of experience is related to a kind of tension generated by Figure 2. Centripetal and centrifugal forces emerging from emptiness in Black Square, by Kazimir Malevich (1915), Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Public Domain, https://commons.wiki media.org/w/index.php?curid¼31011870 overwhelming signs (Figure 2; see also Lehmann and Klempe, 2016). This process is described by Burke (1767Burke ( /1998 through an example from Milton's ''Paradise Lost'' (2007, p. 140): where he describes the travels of the fallen angels through their final habitation.…”

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“…Beauty and good are not exclusive attributes of poetic action. Besides, the aesthetic dimension of experience is related to a kind of tension generated by overwhelming signs (Figure 2; see also Lehmann and Klempe, 2016). This process is described by Burke (1767/1998) through an example from Milton’s “Paradise Lost” (2007, p. 140):where he describes the travels of the fallen angels through their final habitation. O’er many a dark and dreary vale They pass'd, and many a region dolorous.…”

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Poetic destroyers. Vico, Emerson and the aesthetic dimension of experiencing

Tateo

2017

Culture & Psychology

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The aesthetic dimension of meaning-making in human conduct has been often overlooked. In this article, ''aesthetic'' refers to an immediate form of experiencing in which affective, ethical and cognitive dimensions are experienced as a totality, rather than a more restrictive meaning of artistic experience. The philosopher Giambattista Vico (1670-1744) developed the concept of ''poetic logic,'' that is a specific mode of thought typical of early stages of civilization. Poetic logic is the first form of collective elaboration of experience, a way of creating universals concepts based on sensory, affective sense-making and religious thinking. Vico claims that poetic logic was the cornerstone for the elaboration of whole systems of collective knowledge (poetic economy, science, geography, history, law, etc.) crystallized in myths. Poetic logic, based on imaginative function is a proper epistemological stance that, though overcome by rationality at a later stage of civilization, still plays an important function in keeping alive the ethical dimensions of collective life against the ''barbarism of reflection.'' Two centuries later, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), one of the fathers of Pragmatism, developed an idea of poetic and imagination as forms of knowledge. Though echoing Vico's ideas, he represents the aggressiveness of modernity. From the discussion of their ideas, I will try to sketch the psychological aspects of the aesthetic dimension of experience that can be found in a wide range of human activities, including actions of killing, overpowering and social injustice. I will try to argue that meaning-making is oriented through processes that affect such aesthetic dimension.

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The Centrality of Aesthetics for Psychology: Sciences and Arts United Through Poetic Instants

Cited by 5 publications

References 7 publications

SILENCE: Capturing the Feeling of Inner Quietude

SILENCE: Capturing the Feeling of Inner Quietude

Revisiting “The Art of Being Fragile”: Why cultural psychology needs literature and poetry

Poetic destroyers. Vico, Emerson and the aesthetic dimension of experiencing

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