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Apperception




Apperception comes from Latin, toward and to perceive, gain, secure, learn or feel.



  Apperception is to perceive new experience, in relation to past experience. The term originally means passing the threshold into consciousness. The precept changes when reaching consciousness because of the presence of other stuff already there, not perceived, but apperceived.



  Johann Friedrich Herbart describes a systemized process of a mass of presentations, coming together by the senses or by the development of inner workings of the mind. Exemplified, a teacher should be acquainted with his student's mental development to make full use of what he, already, knows.



Further, consider this:



  A rich child and a poor child, walking together, come across a ten dollar bill on the sidewalk. The rich child says it's not a whole lot of money. The poor child says, it is. The difference in how they apperceive the same event- the lens of past experience through which they see and value (or devalue) the money.



Christopher Ott



  The following tries to distinguish an event from all of its attachments. Imannuel Kant separates trancendental and empirical apperception. A pure, original, unchangeable condition of experience and the consciousness of a concrete, actual self with its changing states, or inner sense. Trancendental apperception similar to self-consciousness, the ego may, or not, be prominent, but is always involved.



  Crystalization is a concept by French writer Stendhal to describe a process when unattractive characteristics of a new love are transformed into perceptual 'diamonds' of shimmering beauty. A love object is found to have new perfections.



  While reviewing salt mines in Salzburg, Stendhal and Madame Gherardi found a crystalization that looked like diamonds. There they met an intelligent Bavarian officer who joined them. The officer slowly began to be taken with Madame Gherardi. Stendhal could see the officer visibly 'falling in love' with her. But, more so, Stendhal noticed an undertone of madness that grew by the moment, the officer saw perfections that were not visible to Stendhal's eyes.



  Stendhal concludes the moment an interest is made in another, they, no longer, see them as they are, but as they suit them. A flattering illusion is created by a developing interest. Stendhal compares the 'birth' of love that corresponds, in function, to a trip from Bologne to Rome. Here, Bologne represents an 'indifference' and Rome, a 'perfect' love. In Bologne, they are not concerned to admire, in any particular way, the person, who they may, one day, be madly in love with. Even less, is our imagination inclined to overrate their worth. Crystalization has, not yet, begun. When the journey begins, love departs. Stendhal says the departure has nothing to do with the will, it's an instinctive moment.



   The transformative process follows sequence on a journey. First is admiration, people marvel at the loved one's qualities. An acknowledgement of the pleasantness of having the loved one's interest. Hope envisions gaining the loved one's love. Finally, delighting in overrating the beauty and merit of the one whose love is hoped to win. This characterizes Stendhal's crystalization.



  Psychologist Dorothy Tennov describes a limmerent process, a loved one's characteristics are crystalized by way of mental events and neurological reconfiguration such that attractive features are exaggerated, the unattractive remiss.





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