Endopatía

Endopathy (from the prefix endo-, inward, and pathos, suffering or feeling). Usual translation of the aesthetic and philosophical concept coming from the German einfühlung, fusion of vision and feeling that takes place when projecting the subject his feelings on the intuited object.It can also be translated as empathy or aesthetic sympathy, or even sentimental projection. It is typical of romanticism. Teoría de empathy The study of the subjective p towards the forms was one of the fronts of the experimental aesthetic and of him it obtained important conclusions like the statistics elaborated by Fechner. The theses of the theory of einfühlung are based first and foremost on the notion of the concept of feeling, understood univocally, because its different types of manifestation, pleasure, and pain are nothing more than tonalities of a single reality. The feeling is conceived by the einfühlung as an absolutely free spiritual action insofar as it is governed and corrected only internally, without the need to behave according to rules as it happens in logical thinking. The feeling takes the external forms as symbols of life itself, hence extreme sentimental freedom is crucial to encourage empathy because it allows to equate the multiplicity of the world with the diversity of the self. In this correspondence the feeling becomes an act of understanding and introspection, but above all it turns the general perceptive activity into aesthetic experience, in enjoyment of the object by transference of the subjective feelings. For the einfühlung, empathy is presented as a psychological scheme of artistic creation, according to which the essence of the work is not the motive or the subject but the artist himself and his spiritual life, his expression through projection on the forms of the world. So it is a conception of art as an expression.

Some of the movements linked to this theory are Art Nouveau or Modernism, Jugendstil or German Expressionism. Its most relevant theoretical authors are Friedrich Theodor Vischer, Theodor Lipps, Johannes Volket and Wilhelm Worringer. Bibliography Notes and

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