Introduction to Aesthetic Physiology

Author: Li Qiaoli
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Publish Date: 2000-05-01
Features: Various forms of aesthetic psychology. Just as a lively century has passed, a calm voice suddenly emerges: there is a need for aesthetic physiology. The achievements of psychology require the basis of physiology, and the achievements of aesthetic psychology require the support of aesthetic physiology. The aesthetic physiology proposed in this book breaks away from the concepts of predecessors and puts forward a new theoretical system and new basic principles. The book teaches readers how to explain the beauty of primitive nature and introduces the principles of aesthetic physiology—the "Energy Conservation—Adaptive Change" principle, the second principle of aesthetic physiology—the relief principle of excessive stress response, the external regulation of psychological energy, the complementarity of the law of periodic change and the law of relief, the psychoanalytic view of psychological energy and "art as the expression of force," the "self-actualization" of artists from the perspective of aesthetic physiology, and the origin of art from the perspective of aesthetic physiology—critiques of Plekhanov and Levy-Bruhl, etc.