souriau's

Updated: May 18, 2025

And repose or unity is given by symmetry, subjectively the balance of attention, inasmuch as this balance is a tension of antagonistic impulses, an equilibrium, and thus an inhibition of movement. From this point of view, we are in a position to refute Souriau's interesting analysis<1> of form as the condition for the appreciation of content.

Ethel Dench Puffer Howes - The Psychology of Beauty