THE MENTAL TABLEAU
THE MENTAL TABLEAU

Summary/Abstract: As we very well know, the mental tableau is formed and formatted during childhood, puberty and adolescence and aims towards completeness in adulthood. But why do we need to come up with concepts that combine a psychological and/ or philosophical element –mental and/ or intellectual – with another concept like “picture” or “landscape” that par excellence belongs to the fine arts? Aren’t the fields in discussion too disparate to even find some possible linking bridges between them? Moreover, these bridges that we would find, could they be fertile from the point of view of enlightenment of the spiny and the very old discussion about the human mind and its modality to operate? Or maybe, precisely this lying in wait in the somehow closed territory of a domain could be the shortcoming that narrows (more and more overtime) the possibility of its exploration, uninhibited by prejudice, in such a way that, at a certain moment, it starts to lose the fertile field of its maximum idealistic opening in the fresh and uninhibited approach of the subject. That is just why I think that by linking some perspectives coming from different fields – the life concepts of the mental opposite to the evolution of fine arts – that can, however, be brought together towards a common denominator of a fertilizing dialogue, we have created the premises of an interesting discussion in the unconventional of an approach that allows itself to come up with unexpected but clarifying points of view regarding a problematic that is still concerning, even in an era where neurosciences have made remarkable progress in clarifying the mechanisms of the human mind.

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