The Triadic Structure of the Mind by Belfiore Francesco;

Author:Belfiore, Francesco;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780761868576
Publisher: Hamilton Books
Published: 2016-11-07T00:00:00+00:00

4.3.2.6.2—Collingwood’s Aesthetics

Collingwood (1938) considered art as the expression of emotions. He wrote:

When a man is said to express emotion . . . [a]t first, he is conscious of having an emotion, but not conscious of what this emotion is. All he is conscious of is a perturbation or excitement. . . . From this helpless and oppressed condition he extricates himself by doing something which we call expressing himself. . . . the emotion expressed is an emotion of whose nature the person who feels it is no longer unconscious. It has also something to do with the way in which he feels the emotion. As unexpressed, he feels it in what we have called a helpless and oppressed way; as expressed, he feels it in a way from which this sense of oppression has vanished. His mind is somehow lightened and eased. This lightening of emotions which is somehow connected with the expression of them has a certain resemblance to the ‘catharsis’ by which emotions are earthed through being discharged into a make-believe situation. (1938: 109–110)

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