Research On Ehrenzweig’s Thought Of Aesthetic Psychology

Anton Ehrenzweig is a famous Austrian art psychologist and artist.His representative work is "The Psychoanalysis of Art’s Visual and Hearing-An Introduction to the Theory of Unconscious Perception".After its publication,this book has attracted great attention from the Western art theory and art circles,and has become a classic work of Western literature and art psychology.In this book,Ehrenzweig combined artistic practice to create a more systematic theory of artistic psychoanalysis.Its theoretical basis mainly includes Gestalt psychology aesthetics and psychoanalysis aesthetics.On the basis of criticizing and inheriting the aesthetic theory of Gestalt psychology,he used Freud’s psychoanalytic aesthetics to discuss art forms,revealed the non-figurative form factors of art works and the unconscious structure of artistic perception,and explained the The artistic creation process from figurative to figurative,non-gestalt to gestalt.The deep integration of Gestalt psychology aesthetics and psychoanalytic aesthetics makes Ehrenzweig’s artistic psychoanalysis show a unique theoretical color,and his excellent artistic practice ability makes him exude a unique charm.The study of Ehrenzweig’s aesthetic psychology is of great significance to artistic creation and aesthetic research,both in theory and in reality.Therefore,this paper is mainly based on his book "The Psycho—Analysis of Artistic Vision and Hearing——An Introduction to a Theory of Unconscious Perception" and the paper "The Hidden Order of Art",with the assistance of domestic and foreign research materials,from the "non-representational form" proposed by Ehrenzweig.Starting with "factors",he explores his deep psychological analysis on art form,art perception and art creation process,so as to show the basic appearance of his aesthetic psychology thought.The first chapter mainly explains the ideological background and theoretical basis of Ehrenzweig’s aesthetic psychology.In the twentieth century,Western irrationalism gradually flourished.The irrational philosophies of Schopenhauer,Nietzsche,Bergsonand others emphasized "will" and "intuition",planting the seeds for Ehrenzweig’s theory.The British aesthetician Herbert Reed advocated the romantic view of art in the later period,and his works and the concept of "organic form" directly promoted the germination of Ehrenzweig’s thought.Gestalt psychology aesthetics and psychoanalytic aesthetics,as the two most influential schools of psychological aesthetics at that time,provided the main theoretical tools for Ehrenzweig’s artistic psychoanalysis.It was in the process of deep integration of the two that Ehrenzweig completed his theoretical construction.The second chapter focuses on "inarticulate form",an important concept of Ehrenzweig’s aesthetic thought,explaining its shape,essence and type.Articulate is not equal to concrete,and inarticulate is not equal to abstract,so "inarticulate form" does not refer to abstract forms,but to chaotic and ambiguous art forms.This form,as opposed to gestalt,can only be captured by deep perception.Its production is mainly related to the unconscious mind,and its essence is an unconscious mental language with sexual symbolic meaning.inarticulate forms include gestalt free form and thing free form,both of which involve Ehrenzweig’s discussion of beauty and truth respectively.The third chapter is devoted to explaining the concept and function of "diffuse attention" proposed by Ehrenzweig.First,through the concepts of children’s "undifferentiated perception",Bergson’s "intuition",and American psychologist Max’s "long-term gaze",it is shown that diffuse attention is a kind of purposeless deep perception,the key of which lies in visual focus and the retirement of consciousness focus.Then it expounds that diffuse attention,as a bridge between inarticulate form and gestalt,plays a foundational and assisting role in the process of artistic creation.The fourth chapter focuses on Ehrenzweig’s deep psychological analysis of the double embodiment of art.The double figuration of art refers to "secondary gestalt elaboration" and "secondary reification".Starting from the concepts of "secondary gestalt retouching" and "secondary reification",respectively discuss the aesthetic requirements of secondary gestalt retouching and form "style" or "decoration",and the secondary concretization produces a sense of shape and constitutes In the process of "scientific" realism,the importance of unconscious structure in the double figuration of art is shown.The unconscious mind is the cradle of the inarticulate form,and the unconscious perception is the necessary way to discover the inarticulate form,both of which are indispensable parts of the double-representation of art.The fifth chapter places Ehrenzweig’s aesthetic psychology theory in the context of the times,and finds that its important significance lies in that: his high attention to "inarticulate form" makes him break through the limitations of Gestalt psychology aesthetics,and its use The theory of unconscious perception that focuses on "diffuse attention" is an extension of the research field of aesthetic perception,and the artistic viewpoints derived from the above two key concepts are also more creative.However,he overemphasized the role of the unconscious in culture and art,thus making the aesthetic problem one-sided and falling into the limitation of idealism.