An Introduction to Carles M. Espinalt's Psycho-esthetics: A Psychology of the Mutual Influences between Form and Essence.

This paper presents the different dimensions of Psycho-aesthetics. Psycho-aesthetics is a set of psychological concepts created by Carles M. Espinalt (1920-1993) that help conceptualize the mutual influences of form and essence. Language, an individual’s character, personal image, leadership, and one’s “way of being” are understood in Psycho-aesthetics as cultural artifices that exemplify the complementary aspects of form and essence. The present study investigates ways of changing or educating form, and how essence may be influenced or modified. We also describe the implicitly Aristotelian epistemology of Psycho-aesthetics, as well as the rationale behind the Psycho-aesthetic approach.