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Theories Of Perception In Renaissance Humanism, John Shannon Hendrix
Theories Of Perception In Renaissance Humanism, John Shannon Hendrix
Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications
The hypostases of being consist of the terrestrial world of corporeal forms, dense, intertwined and in shadow; then the rationalization of the corporeal forms in the angelic mind; and finally the resolution of the forms in their absolute archetypal unity. The hypostases of being are modelled in the Universal Figure of Nicolas Cusanus, with the three figures of body, soul and mind inscribed in each of the three levels of the hierarchy, containing the nine choruses of Pseudo-Dionysius in the celestial hierarchies, representing the structure of the universe, as illustrated in a diagram, “Quator dictarum Monadum Schematica explicatio,” in Kircher’s …
Philosophy Of Perception In Hegel, John Shannon Hendrix
Philosophy Of Perception In Hegel, John Shannon Hendrix
Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications
According to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in the Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics (The Introduction to Hegel’s Philosophy of Fine Art, 1886), beauty in art is a higher beauty than that of nature, because beauty in art is a product of the mind, or spirit, the intellectual rather than the sensory. In the Symposium of Plato, when the initiate learns to love all beautiful bodies rather than just one body, to “pursue the beauty of form” (210) rather than the beauty of the body, to turn away from the “low and small-minded slav-ery” of love for the beauty of a body, …
Jacques Lacan And Language, John Shannon Hendrix
Jacques Lacan And Language, John Shannon Hendrix
Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications
According to Jacques Marie Emile Lacan in Écrits, the metonymic chain in language produces signification at a point which is the “anchoring point,” the point de capiton or button hole, which occurs retroactively, after the phrase is completed, and is the point at which the network of signifiers in the metonymic chain corresponds to a network of signifiers in the concept, the idea of mouth or river, for example, and thus accomplishes signification.
The Imaginary And Symbolic Of Jacques Lacan, John Shannon Hendrix
The Imaginary And Symbolic Of Jacques Lacan, John Shannon Hendrix
Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications
The principal categories of Lacanian psychoanalysis in the structuring of the psyche are the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real. The imaginary (imaginaire) refers to perceived or imagined images in conscious and unconscious thought, sensible and intelligible forms; picture thinking (Vorstellung), dream images or manifest content, and conscious ego in discursive thought. The symbolic (symbolique) refers to the signifying order, signifiers, in language, which determine the subject; it refers to the unconscious, and the intellectual, the logos endiathetos and the logos prophorikos. It is the relation between the imaginary and symbolic in conscious and …
The Other Of Jacques Lacan, John Shannon Hendrix
The Other Of Jacques Lacan, John Shannon Hendrix
Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications
Language in the symbolic of Lacan is defined by the Other, which is the “intersubjectivity of the ‘we’ that it assumes,” as described in Écrits. The subject enters language in relationship to the other in perception, the per-ceived object or person, as recognized by the other. As described by Lacan, “What constitutes me as subject is my question. In order to be recognized by the other, I utter what was only in view of what will be [the future ante-rior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming].”
Language And Perception In Plotinus, John Shannon Hendrix
Language And Perception In Plotinus, John Shannon Hendrix
Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications
I will argue that in the thought of Plotinus, how we perceive the world around us is determined by how we use language.
Robert Grosseteste: Optics And Perception, John Shannon Hendrix
Robert Grosseteste: Optics And Perception, John Shannon Hendrix
Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications
In De Luce seu de inchoatione formarum, the treatise on light written between 1225 and 1228, Grosseteste explains that light is the first corporeal form, the origin of matter.
Immanuel Kant: Philosophy Of Perception, John Shannon Hendrix
Immanuel Kant: Philosophy Of Perception, John Shannon Hendrix
Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications
In an early treatise, Attempt to Introduce the Concept of Negative Magnitudes into Philosophy (Versuch, den Begriff der negative Grössen in die Weltweisheit einzuführen, 1763), Immanuel Kant developed a theory about thoughts that are fleeting, negated or cancelled, obscured or darkened. As certain thoughts become clearer, the other thoughts become less clear and more obscured (Verdunkelt). Kant’s concept was influenced by the petites perceptions of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He invoked Leibniz in establishing that only a small portion of the representations which occur in the soul, as the result of sense perception, are clear and enduring.
The Dream Work Of Sigmund Freud, John Shannon Hendrix
The Dream Work Of Sigmund Freud, John Shannon Hendrix
Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications
There are many correspondences between Freudian metapsychology and Plotinian metaphysics. Many of Freud’s ideas seem to be rooted in classical philosophy, although acknowledgement is rarely given. Plotinus is a fruitful source for understanding how the mind works. For Freud, unconscious words become conscious images, and unconscious images become conscious words, but these processes do not happen independently of each other. They are wrapped up in a dialectical process that is better understood by reading Plotinus.
The Real And The Gaze Of Jacques Lacan, John Shannon Hendrix
The Real And The Gaze Of Jacques Lacan, John Shannon Hendrix
Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications
The third category of the psyche in Lacanian psychoanalysis is the real (réel), which is neither imaginary nor symbolic in conscious or unconscious thought, and which is inaccessible to psychoanalysis itself. The real is not reality in either a conceptual or phenomenological sense, which is the symbolic and the imaginary: it is only proposed as an algebraic concept, as it cannot be conceived.