Bright Colors Falsely Seen: Synaesthesia and the Search for Transcendental KnowledgeYale University Press, 1 ian. 1998 - 225 pagini In a conversation with his physician, a nineteenth-century resident of Paris who lived near the railroad described sensations of brilliant color generated by the sounds of trains passing in the night. This patient - a synaesthete - experienced "color hearing" for letters, words, and most sounds. Synaesthesia, a phenomenon now known to science for more than a century, is a rare form of perception in which one sense may respond to stimuli received by other senses. This fascinating book provides the first historical treatment of synaesthesia and a closely related mode of perception called eideticism. Kevin Dann discusses divergent views of synaesthesia and eideticism of the past hundred years and explores the controversies over the significance of these unusual modes of perception. |
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... thought to hold more truth than the pedestrian perceptions of nonvisionaries . Nearly every contemporary historian , whether sympathetic to it or not , is familiar with Max Weber's view that Western European history is characterized by ...
... thought to hold more truth than the pedestrian perceptions of nonvisionaries . Nearly every contemporary historian , whether sympathetic to it or not , is familiar with Max Weber's view that Western European history is characterized by ...
Pagina x
... invites speculative thought . Through imaginative spec- ulation , it seems possible to begin to see the unseen , any era's most fundamental Romantic desire . AKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to acknowledge the generous assistance of the x Preface.
... invites speculative thought . Through imaginative spec- ulation , it seems possible to begin to see the unseen , any era's most fundamental Romantic desire . AKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to acknowledge the generous assistance of the x Preface.
Pagina 4
... thought of herself as abnormal . She told Cutsforth , himself synaesthetic , of how her efforts to avoid her own synaesthetic mental processes had only hindered her thinking ( p . 528 ) . Carol Steen remembers how , beginning in the ...
... thought of herself as abnormal . She told Cutsforth , himself synaesthetic , of how her efforts to avoid her own synaesthetic mental processes had only hindered her thinking ( p . 528 ) . Carol Steen remembers how , beginning in the ...
Pagina 7
... thought . 5. Synaesthesia is emotional , almost always being associated with a narrowly circumscribed set of strong emotions , particularly certain forms of pleasure or displeasure . Though few if any students of synaesthesia have ...
... thought . 5. Synaesthesia is emotional , almost always being associated with a narrowly circumscribed set of strong emotions , particularly certain forms of pleasure or displeasure . Though few if any students of synaesthesia have ...
Pagina 9
... thought that the spaces occupied by the seven colors of the spectrum were analogous to the relative intervals between notes in the octave is frequently cited as an example of early research into synaesthesia , as is Father Louis ...
... thought that the spaces occupied by the seven colors of the spectrum were analogous to the relative intervals between notes in the octave is frequently cited as an example of early research into synaesthesia , as is Father Louis ...
Cuprins
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Synaesthesia | 46 |
The Meaning of Synaesthesia Is Meaning | 65 |
Synaesthesia Eideticism | 94 |
Vladimir Nabokovs Eidetic Technique | 120 |
The Redemption of Thinking | 165 |
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
abstract aesthesia aesthetic appeared Arguelles's artistic associated astral audition colorée autistic savants Baudelaire Baudelaire's century Charles Féré childhood chromaesthesia chromaesthetes cited cognitive color hearing color music consciousness correspondences Cutsforth Cytowic described descriptions eidetic ability eidetic imagery eidetic images eideticism etheric body evolution experience experienced feeling fin de siècle French gift hallucinations human ideas imagination individuals interest in synaesthesia interpretation of synaesthesia introspection Jaensch Kandinsky Kandinsky's language light limbic system literature Luria McKenna meaning memory mental metaphor mind mipa Myers mystical Nabokov nonsynaesthetes objects occult phenomena physical poem poets Prometheus psychologists realm Richard Cytowic Rimbaud Ringbom Romantic scientific Scriabin sensations sense sensory Shereshevsky sound spiritual Steiner subjective suggests symbolic Symbolist synaesthesia synaesthesia and eideticism synaesthetic perception synaesthetic photisms syncretic Temple Grandin theory Theosophical thought tion tones transcendent transcendental vibrations visions Vladimir Nabokov vowels Voyelles Wellek Werner Wheeler and Cutsforth's word writing
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Pagina 99 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins: Such harmony is in immortal souls...
Pagina 122 - I am not an ordinary - I am the one among you who is alive - Not only are my eyes different, and my hearing, and my sense of taste - not only is my sense of smell like a deer's, my sense of touch like a bat's - but, most important, I have the capacity to conjoin all of this in one point.
Pagina 8 - I turn my eyes to the Schools & Universities of Europe And there behold the Loom of Locke whose Woof rages dire Washd by the Water-wheels of Newton. black the cloth In heavy wreathes folds over every Nation...
Pagina 123 - I present a fine case of colored hearing. Perhaps "hearing" is not quite accurate, since the color sensation seems to be produced by the very act of my orally forming a given letter while I imagine its outline. The long a of the English alphabet (and it is this alphabet I have in mind farther on unless otherwise stated) has for me the tint of weathered wood, but a French a evokes polished ebony.
Pagina 50 - If there were such a thing as inspiration from a higher realm, it might well be that the neurotic temperament would furnish the chief condition of the requisite receptivity.
Pagina 146 - I am afraid to get mixed up with Plato whom I do not care for, but I do think that in my case it is true that the entire book, before it is written, seems to be ready ideally in some other, now transparent, now dimming, dimension, and my job is to take down as much of it as I can make out and as precisely as I am humanly able to.
Referințe la această carte
The Handbook of Multisensory Processes Gemma Calvert,Charles Spence,Barry E. Stein Previzualizare limitată - 2004 |
Across the Great Border Fault: The Naturalist Myth in America Kevin T. Dann Previzualizare limitată - 2000 |