Sensuality in Human Living: The Cultural Psychology of Affect (SpringerBriefs in Theoretical Advances in Psychology)

This Book Is A Theoretical Account For General Psychology Of How Human Beings Meaningfully Relate With Their Bodies-- From The Basic Physiological Processes Upwards To The Highest Psychological Functions Of Religiosity, Ethical Reasoning, And Devotional Practices. It Unites Art And Science Into A New Theory Of Affective Synthesis That Human Minds Are Constantly Involved In Their Everyday Life Worlds. Provides A New Theory Of Aesthetic Synthesis; Demonstrates The Links Between Art And Science; Provides A New Understanding Of The Role Of Affect In Human Cognition. .-- Prové De L'editor. Preface 6 Introduction 8 Sensuality in Focus: The Human Psyche Beyond the Lures of Sexuality 8 Contents 12 Part I: Living by Affective Hyper-Generalization 14 Chapter 1: Theory of the Dynamic Sublime 15 The Sublime: Dramatizing the Mundane 16 Erhabene (the Sublime) as an Affective Drama 17 Translation Paradoxes: Forgetting the Time 18 Erhabene in Everyday Experiences 19 Borders in the Imagination Process 20 Schematization and Pleromatization 26 Varieties of the Affective Construction in the Sublime Zone 29 The Emergence of the Grotesque 30 The Humorous Hyper-Generalized Sign 33 Conclusions: Conceptualizing the Emerging Complexity of the Psyche 34 Chapter 2: Embodiment in Action: The Making of the Body 35 Looking at the Body: All Around 35 Cultural Body in Action: The Role of Dance 41 Part II: Feeling into the World 47 Chapter 3: The Romantic Encounters 48 Basis for Romanticism: Intense Expression of Feelings 50 Romantic Devotion in Indian History: The Bhakti Movement 53 From the Sublime to the Sensual: The Tantric Love Ritual 54 Conclusion: Sensuality in Society 55 Chapter 4: Sensuality in Seeing Through 56 Conclusions: Sensuality Is a Border Process 66 Part III: Theoretical Proliferations 70 Chapter 5: Sensuality In-Between: Dialogical Negotiation of Feeling Fields 71 Living Under Ambiguity (And Creating More of It) 74 Sensuality as a Hypothesis, Sexuality as a Dogma 77 Normativity in the Not-Yet-Known: The Differentiated AS-IF Zone 78 Conclusions: Dialogical Negotiation of the Unfolding Affective Atmospheres 79 Chapter 6: Hierarchical Integration of Human Psychological Needs 80 Sensuality in the Hierarchical Field of Human Needs 81 Societal Guidance of Need Transformation 83 Love as the Escape from Moral Norms 84 Sensuality in Musical Performing 86 Conclusion: Semiotic Regulation of the Hierarchy of Human Needs 88 Part IV: General Conclusion 89 Chapter 7: Sensual Living in Affectivated Worlds 90 Commentary: Sinking Back and Beyond to Understand Sensuous and Affective Processes: What Will an Artist Think of All That? 94 Intro: Request for an Artist to Comment 94 Art Looking at Complexes 94 The Sublime Is a Meaning-Making Process on the Move 96 The Grotesque, the Humorous, and the Burlesque 96 Southern Beauties 98 Science and Fiction or Science Fiction? 99 References 102 Index 107 Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Theory of the Dynamic Sublime (Jaan Valsiner)....Pages 3-22 Embodiment in Action: The Making of the Body (Jaan Valsiner)....Pages 23-34 Front Matter ....Pages 35-35 The Romantic Encounters (Jaan Valsiner)....Pages 37-44 Sensuality in Seeing Through (Jaan Valsiner)....Pages 45-58 Front Matter ....Pages 59-59 Sensuality In-Between: Dialogical Negotiation of Feeling Fields (Jaan Valsiner)....Pages 61-69 Hierarchical Integration of Human Psychological Needs (Jaan Valsiner)....Pages 71-79 Front Matter ....Pages 81-81 Sensual Living in Affectivated Worlds (Jaan Valsiner)....Pages 83-86 Back Matter ....Pages 87-103