Abstract
The disciplinary formation of psychology of art in China experienced three phases in terms of its name and nature, and two approaches have emerged with one from the psychological perspective and the other from literary perspective. The psychological perspective takes the relation between psychology and literary art as a psychological phenomenon, while the literary perspective takes it as a literary one. This paper tries to argue for a discipline to study the psychology of literary art and establish a subject boundary of the discipline. It argues that the limits of psychology in literary studies has to be recognized and that only when an approach is established in the fusion between the horizons of literature and psychology can the disciplinary boundary of psychology of literature and art be clearly defined.
First Page
13
Last Page
20
Recommended Citation
Liu, Fengjie. 2012. "The Name and Nature of the Psychology of Art: An Exploration of Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature since 1976." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 32, (5): pp.13-20. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol32/iss5/15
