ERICKSONIAN HYPNOSIS AND THE ESTHETICS OF CHARLES PEIRCE: FEELINGS, MUSEMENT AND THERAPEUTIC RECONFIGURATION
Abstract
The present work seeks to discuss the relations between ericksonian hypnosis and the esthetics of Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) to understand the role of feelings and esthetic admiration present in hypnotherapic processes and its relations with therapeutic reconfigurations. With this in mind, the basic concepts of Peirce's work were presented such as sign, semiosis, habit, its phenomenological categories and how esthetics is placed in relation to the other Normative Sciences. Milton H. Erickson (1901-1980) and the characteristics of his practice that underpin the approach of ericksonian hypnosis were briefly introduced. Two cases of Milton Erickson are presented below to illustrate the theoretical development. The study elaborates on how hypnotic communication promotes a favorable context for esthetic admiration and Musement amidst the trance experience and how it can restrict the influence of rational processes on its ongoing interactions. By exploring the role of feeling in the therapeutic reconfigurations of the cases, the formation process of habits of feeling is discussed as esthetic ideals that direct the reconfiguration of self-control, which consequently forms and sustains new habits of conduct. Finally, it develops on the aspects of drama and existential matters that arise midst the cases’ analysis and the possible theoretical implications if they are to be considered constitutive dimensions of the subject.
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