Psychologism and psychoaesthetics / John Fizer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fizer, John.

Series:

Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe ; 6.

Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe (LLSEE), 0165-7712 ; v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychologism.

Aesthetics--Psychological aspects.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1981.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Unlike studies which confine psychologism to the second half of the nineteenth century, and to an explicit claim of psychology as a 'Grundwissenschaft' during that period, this work attempts to trace psychologism's emergence in Greek antiquity, in hedonistic tendencies of the Renaissance, and in British Empiricism. Thus, psychologism figures as a generic concept, embracing a variety of both positivistic and idealistic arguments concerning the localization of normative sciences, particularly aesthetics and literary theory, in psychological space. This study also considers the implicit psychologism of even those psychoaesthetic theories which claimed to be against the exclusive status of psychology. In their actual treatment of aesthetic and literary facts, such theories inadvertently did indeed resort to psychologistic arguments. The position from which I have chosen to look at psychologistically committed aesthetics and literary theory is essentially phenomenological. The author seeks to present psychologism as a central tendency of psychoaesthetics as well as to assert critically psychologism's basic assumptions.

Contents:

PSYCHOLOGISM AND PSYCHOAESTHETICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Table of contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: AN ATTEMPT TO DEFINE PSYCHOLOGISM; I. PSYCHOAESTHETICS: A HISTORICAL DIMENSION; II. EXPERIMENTAL AESTHETICS: A QUEST FOR MISSING TANGIBILITY; III. EMPATHY: THE EPIPHENOMENON THAT ALLEGEDLY LINKS SUBJECT AND OBJECT; IV. PHYSIOLOGICAL AESTHETICS: ÉDONÉ, THE KEY TO IT ALL; V. FREUDIAN PSYCHOAESTHETICS: A QUEST FOR PSYCHIC QUIESCENCE; VI. JUNGIAN PSYCHOAESTHETICS: A QUEST FOR PERENNIAL REDEFINITION

VII. ADLERIAN PSYCHOAESTHETICS: A QUEST FOR INDIVIDUAL EXCLUSIVENESS VIII. GESTALT AESTHETICS: FROM GENETIC TO PHENOMENAL ORGANIZATIONS; IX. THE PSYCHOAESTHETICS OF I. A. RICHARDS: RECONCILIATION OF DIVERSE APPETENCIES THROUGH THE CREATIVE ACT; X. PSYCHOAESTHETIC MISCELLENEA AND MARGINALIA; 1. Outside the Main Psychoaesthetic Schools; 2. Redactionist and Revisionist proliferation of Freudian Theory; 3. Attempts to Construct an All-inclusive Eclecticism; 4. Attempts to Integrate Psychoanalysis into Existentialism, Phenomenology, and Structuralism; XI. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION

APPENDIX: Roman Ingarden: PSYCHOLOGISM AND PSYCHOLOGY I. Psychology and Psychologism; II. Influence of Psychologism on Research; III. Connection of Psychology and Literary Scholarship; IV. The Goal of Psychology in Literary Scholarship; APPENDIX FOOTNOTES; NOTES; Introduction; Chapter. I; Chapter. II; Chapter. III; Chapter. IV; Chapter. VII; Chapter. VIII; Chapter. IX; Chapter. ?; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NAME INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical (p. [251]-274) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-32888-7

9786613328885

90-272-8087-8

OCLC:

773040564