The evolution of expressive culture

Autor: David G. Hays
Rok vydání: 1992
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Zdroj: Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems. 15:187-215
ISSN: 1061-7361
DOI: 10.1016/1061-7361(92)90004-w
Popis: The capacity for integration of personality and formation of character changes in cultural evolution. Mechanisms of ego defense arise with literacy, and mechanisms of reorganization arise in and after the Renaissance). Expressive culture, consisting of religions, magics, arts, and entertainments, etc., differentiate correspondingly. At present, levels of art, entertainment, and diversion can be distinguished by the demands they make on their audiences, and by their effects. Neurologically, the human problem may be to bring cortical goals, such as the need for beauty, truth, love, and justice into concordance with animal goals, such as the need for security, sustenance, sex, and sociality. The difficulty of this problem is reflected in the prevalence of perversions.
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