{"id":599,"date":"2018-11-12T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/?p=599"},"modified":"2024-10-02T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T08:43:09","slug":"mnemonic-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/2018\/11\/12\/mnemonic-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Mnemonic Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really excited to be one of the speakers of the forthcoming symposium\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/warburgpostgrad.wixsite.com\/mnemonicwaves\">Mnemonic Waves<\/a>, to be held in London at the Warburg Institute next November 15.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/2018\/11\/12\/mnemonic-waves\/mnemonicwaves\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-600\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/files\/2018\/10\/MnemonicWaves-714x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/files\/2018\/10\/MnemonicWaves-714x1024.jpg 714w, https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/files\/2018\/10\/MnemonicWaves-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/files\/2018\/10\/MnemonicWaves-768x1102.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll intervene in the\u00a0<strong>Gestaltpsychologie\u00a0<\/strong>section of the conference, with a paper titled:\u00a0<strong>Caricatures as <em>Pathosformeln<\/em>: Gombrich, Warburg and the Emotions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the abstract:<\/p>\n<p>In his essay on <em>The Experiment of Caricature<\/em>, Gombrich stated that caricatures deform human physiognomy to make mental and emotional states visible and rely on the instinctual capacity of the mind of recognising hints of psychological life in the alteration produced by moving lines.<br \/>\nThis interpretation of caricature can be traced back to the link between <em>motion<\/em> and <em>emotion<\/em> established in Aby Warburg\u2019s research on <em>Pathosformeln<\/em>, according to which artistic forms conveying extreme feelings and passions alter the static image of the human body, verging on deformation.<br \/>\nBridging Gombrich\u2019s and Warburg\u2019s insights, caricatures can be seen as the <em>Pathosformeln<\/em> of modernity. Caricatures elaborate a modern tradition of recurring patterns and pathos formulae, which activates the same \u00abinborn responses\u00bb embodied in ancient <em>Pathosformeln<\/em>. Gombrich\u2019s analysis of caricatures assumes the \u00abbiologically conditioned\u00bb connection between body-reading and mind-reading that was implied in the idea of <em>Pathosformeln<\/em>, thus opening Warburg\u2019s legacy to the confrontation with psychoanalysis as much as with cognitive and neurocognitive sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really excited to be one of the speakers of the forthcoming symposium\u00a0Mnemonic Waves, to be held in London at the Warburg Institute next November 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,1],"tags":[167,200,148,244,259,269,252,251,153,268,152],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-16th-century","category-19th-century","category-20th-century","category-uncategorized","tag-biology","tag-cognitive-studies","tag-emotions","tag-gombrich","tag-history-of-emotions","tag-mnemonic-waves","tag-neurocognitive-sciences","tag-neuroscience","tag-pathosformeln","tag-the-warburg-institute","tag-warburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}