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Meniniai Ir Psichologiniai Įsijautimo Teorijos Aspektai
The Artistical and Psychological Aspects of Einfühlung Theory

Author(s): Žilvinas Vareikis
Subject(s): Epistemology, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Psychology, Phenomenology
Published by: Visuomeninė organizacija »LOGOS«
Keywords: Einfühlung; psychological aesthetics; Lipps; imitation; inspiration; spiritual eye;

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses a fundamental category of aesthetics, Einfühlung, which correlate with other problems of the creation process: attitude, excitement, experience, imitation, inspiration, sympathie, antipathie, intuition, perception and etc. Imitation sets free a contemplation of the piece of art’s aura which is different from the artwork’s consumption towards self – seeking purposes. Here is interpreted a romantic exaltation of inspiration such as an obsolete prejudice since it don’t create conditions for the development of creative imagination and it mistifies or it distorts the process of the art’s creation. On the one hand, there wasn’t solely enough to sympathie or to antipathie for the perceiver to distinguish reliable an authentic piece of art, for example, from the tatty kitsch. An identification of the authentic piece of art requires perceiver’s delicate world outlook and it’s necessary to his personal efforts. An author of the article investigates Einfühlung not so an abstract phenomenon of reality but he studies it as a living phenomenon of psychological nature which disseminates both moral and aesthetics planes and it acts on amateurs mental processses or it has an effect upon art expert’s psychological attitudes.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 77
  • Page Range: 195-210
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Lithuanian