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A source book of Gestalt psychology.The unity of the senses.

A source book of Gestalt psychology.: The unity of the senses. This chapter begins by noting that there is a sensuous which is not limited to one single sense. Indeed, looking more closely, the apparent exception becomes the rule, and one must search in order to find the private property of anyone sense. It is true that these proprietors themselves are different personalities; the Seen is, as such, different from the Heard; and this is a difference which cannot be made clear to the blind and the deaf. But all the senses have not such clear-cut individualities. This chapter examines the interaction of the five senses. What is essential in the sensuous-perceptible is not that which separates the senses from one another, but that which unites them; unites them among themselves; unites them with the entire (even with the non-sensuous) experience in ourselves; and with all the external world that there is to be experienced. (The complete version of this article appreared in "Die Einheit der Sinne", Melos, Zeitschr. f. Musik, vol. iv, 290-297. [The English translation by Elizabeth Koffka and Warren Vinton, entitled "The Unity of the Senses", which appeared in Psyche, 1927, 7, 83-89 of issue No. 28, is reprinted here with permission of the original author and of Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Ltd., London.] (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company
Copyright
Copyright © 1938 American Psychological Association
Pages
210 –216
DOI
10.1037/11496-017
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Abstract

This chapter begins by noting that there is a sensuous which is not limited to one single sense. Indeed, looking more closely, the apparent exception becomes the rule, and one must search in order to find the private property of anyone sense. It is true that these proprietors themselves are different personalities; the Seen is, as such, different from the Heard; and this is a difference which cannot be made clear to the blind and the deaf. But all the senses have not such clear-cut individualities. This chapter examines the interaction of the five senses. What is essential in the sensuous-perceptible is not that which separates the senses from one another, but that which unites them; unites them among themselves; unites them with the entire (even with the non-sensuous) experience in ourselves; and with all the external world that there is to be experienced. (The complete version of this article appreared in "Die Einheit der Sinne", Melos, Zeitschr. f. Musik, vol. iv, 290-297. [The English translation by Elizabeth Koffka and Warren Vinton, entitled "The Unity of the Senses", which appeared in Psyche, 1927, 7, 83-89 of issue No. 28, is reprinted here with permission of the original author and of Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Ltd., London.] (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Published: Aug 13, 2007

Keywords: senses; interaction; Gestalt psychology; sense unity

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