PHL 710 Chapter 2: Merleau-Ponty - Reading Notes
9 Feb 2019
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The film and new psychology - maurice merleau-ponty. Classical psychology considers our visual field to be a sum of sensations - each strictly dependant on the local retinal stimulus it corresponds to. However, new psychology reveals that these stimuli reorganize themselves to produce a system of configurations. Single notes in a song are not heard individually, but all together to form the song"s entirety. Perception of a whole is more natural and primary than the perception of isolated elements. Analytical perception - arriving at absolute value of the separate elements. Perception of forms - our spontaneous way of seeing. Commonplace to say we have five senses. Each of them seems to be out of touch with each other. However, it has been known that certain blind people represent colours by means of sounds they hear. Sounds are often accompanied by spots of colour. Hue, form, vividness vary with the tone, intensity, and pitch of the sounds.
