Aesthetic Experience and Human Development. The Temporal Arts in the Genesis of Complex Psychological Process

Summary

In the field of developmental psychology new hypotheses are currently being brought forward about the infant's subjectivity and intersubjectivity. Namely, these are related to (a) the detection of very early perceptual abilities linked to time and (b) the recognition of the presence of antecedents of temporal arts (music and dance) in the mother-infant interactions. The purpose of this paper is to introduce this emerging approach to childhood and to outline its affinity with what is called “the second person perspective” in the field of philosophy of mind.