CONCEPTUAL INTEGRATION IN HESPERUS BY IOAN PETRU CULIANU
CONCEPTUAL INTEGRATION IN HESPERUS BY IOAN PETRU CULIANU

Summary/Abstract: Blending or conceptual integration is a mental operation required to make meaning in everyday life, as well as in scientific, artistic and social reasoning, by finding correspondences among various information sources. The input mental spaces are blended through selective projection on the blended space, being connected through vital conceptual relations, so that a new emergent structure is generated by the processes of composition, completion and elaboration1. Ioan Petru Culianu approaches the blending process in the study Out of this World, including it in the range of mental phenomena, explaining it as a process of convergence or mental synthesis, where various elements and past experiences become convergent and influence the perception of the new experience2. However, Culianuřs interest in this phenomenon is older, dating from his youth years in Romania, being traced in the story titled The Third History / Istoria III, included in the volume The Art of Fugue.

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