Saturday, 8 March 2014

Transference and Synaesthesia




Transference was first described by Sigmund Freud, who acknowledged its importance for psychoanalysis for better understanding of the patient's feelings. For instance, one could mistrust somebody who resembles an ex-spouse in manners, voice, or external appearance; or be overly compliant to someone who resembles a childhood friend.

 In The Psychology of the Transference, Carl Jung states that within the transference dyad both participants. Transference (broadly defined) and interpretation tend to intermingle, both in the clinical analytic encounter, and in any reading of art, be it by laymen, analysts or other scholars.





Synaesthesia's display combines information about the frequency, location and diffuseness of sound. The display is sufficiently detailed to let you distinguish several individual instruments, singers, or special effects on screen by their location, shape and color, and sufficiently fast to distinguish individual drum beats and notes.

The interest in colored hearing dates back to Greek antiquity, when philosophers asked if the color chroia, currently we know timbre of music was a quantifiable quality. Isaac Newton proposed that musical tones and color tones shared common frequencies, as did Goethe in his book, "Theory of Color."

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