The Sense of Beauty

Hagman, George

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“…Familiarizing students with classical psychological terms such as Freud's ensures that the student understands death education in its more comprehensive form. It is necessary to understand that these unconscious life and death "drives" are not mutually exclusive from the seminal forces of nature (Hagman, 2002). Issues surrounding death and dying and EOL should not be improvised, but rather appropriately contextualized within health education texts.…”

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Analysis of End-of-Life Content in Selected Introductory Health Education Textbooks

McDermott

Demmer

2008

Illness, Crisis & Loss

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The quantity and quality of end of life (EOL) information in commonly used introductory health textbooks was studied. A total of 12 textbooks were identified and rated for the presence of helpful information in eight EOL domains. Content for each domain was rated as absent, minimally present, or helpful. Prior reviews of medical, nursing, pharmacy, psychology, and social work texts have revealed inadequate coverage of EOL care. EOL material contained in introductory health education textbooks seemed to modestly surpass that which has been reported in these comparable reviews. A more comprehensive and broader review of EOL in health education texts needs to be undertaken. For those employed in the health education profession, there needs to be some discussion about what role the health educator can play with respect to EOL care.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Analysis of End-of-Life Content in Selected Introductory Health Education Textbooks

McDermott

Demmer

2008

Illness, Crisis & Loss

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“…Hagman overtakes Freud's notion of art and beauty as sublimation of forbidden sexual impulses, and believes that aesthetic experience encompasses a developmental and relational basis. Hagman (2002) thinks that some ways of understanding beauty is to see beauty as sublimation: beauty reconciles the polarization of self and the world; as idealization: the love of beauty is an indication of the importance of idealization during development; beauty's restorative function: the preservation or restoration of the relationship to the good object; the self-integrative function of beauty: the sense of beauty can reconcile and integrate self-states of fragmentation and depletion; beauty as a defense: in psychopathology, beauty can function defensively for the expression of unconscious impulses and fantasies.…”

Section: Theories Of Beautymentioning

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The Beauty and the Beast Inside: The American Beauty—Does Cosmetic Surgery Help?

Lijtmaer

2010

The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynam

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American society's feminine ideal has consistently emphasized youth as beauty and getting old as ugly. Feeling unattractive produces several intrapsychic conflicts leading to depression and anxiety. Summary of the literature on beauty and aging, beauty and culture, and theories of physical beauty will be presented. With a clinical example of a female patient, the writer investigates the conscious and unconscious fantasies, conflicts, and sense of self inside and outside that impelled a physically beautiful female patient to bring her own body closer to her perception of idealized beauty with the aid of plastic surgery.

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“…When we are in the presence of something beautiful, we are enlivened, we feel whole and happy. Beauty is a special element in the aesthetic experience in which the investment of reality with subjectivity creates an experience of that reality as both ideal and harmonious with our inner life (see also Lee, 1947, 1948, 1950; Hagman, 2001, 2005). George Santayana described a similar experience:…”

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Art and Self

Hagman

2009

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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The following article presents a contemporary self-psychological perspective on aesthetic experience, art, and creativity. The author argues that aesthetics is as important to human life as sex, hunger, aggression, love, and hate. Although we may rarely be conscious of it, aesthetic experience gives form, meaning, and, most importantly, value to everything we are, all we experience, and everything we do. Theoretically without it, life would be a shapeless, meaningless, and colorless series of sensations, events, and reactions. Aesthetic experience achieves its most refined form in the fine arts. However, we can also see its most archaic manifestation in the curve of the mother's shoulder during nursing, her heartbeat and breath, the melody of her voice, the balance of her eyes and smile--all embedded in the warmth, nourishment, and security of the mother-infant interaction. This article reviews recent analytic writings on psychoanalytic aesthetics that emphasize the central role of early childhood relational experiences in the emergence and structuralization of the sense of aesthetic form. The author argues that as a result of developmentally based processes of idealization, the child's aesthetic sense takes on a profound and lifelong concern with form and quality. The author extends this model and proposes a new definition of creativity and the nature of art. He argues that the creative artist is concerned not just with articulation of subjective states of feeling but also with the most refined and perfect expression possible of his or her internal vision. Although a major application of this model is to art and creativity, it is argued that aesthetic experience is a pervasive human trait that impacts on our entire experience of life, self, and relationships.

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The Sense of Beauty

Cited by 29 publications

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Analysis of End-of-Life Content in Selected Introductory Health Education Textbooks

Analysis of End-of-Life Content in Selected Introductory Health Education Textbooks

The Beauty and the Beast Inside: The American Beauty—Does Cosmetic Surgery Help?

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