Of further importance in the context of this discussion, there is evidence that
eidetic or eidetic-like imagery capacities can be "brought on," developed, and enhanced through mental imagery practice, and also through pursuing such practices in conjunction with the induction of states of attentional absorption, a formal quantitative and qualitative construct developed to instrumentalize terms such as "trance" and "hypnosis" or "hypnotic states," as well as for further elucidation of meditational states and the relationship of the latter to the former.
Eidetic refers to the figurative aspect of the choreographic body in its flowing of shapes (also when they are less recognizable and therefore can be better described as figural instead of figurative shapes); plastic conveys the reference to a movement which is tri-dimensional; dynamic refers to dance modulation of the movement energy which articulates expressive variety.
They were, in fact, not only masters of
eidetic description--who attempted to describe as faithfully as possible the essence or ousia of that which appears to consciousness--but were also quite adept at practicing a lived form of the phenomenological reduction, the philosophical life being for them a life lived in a lucid and joyful awareness of what Epictetus (Discourses II, 14) called the wondrous "fair" that is the world (this is what, speaking of the reduction, Husserl's late assistant, Eugen Fink, called "an immeasurable astonishment over the mysteriousness of ...
Only recently he left his schoolmates awestruck with a display of his
eidetic memory at a special assembly arranged to showcase his unique ability.
A Vassar girl with an
eidetic memory, Cindy remembers pretty much everything she's seen, heard, or read.
Ahsen's findings were first published in 1965 in the book
Eidetic Psychotherapy, and imagery research has been studied at universities worldwide.
As we witnessed in the opening section, their speech produces content only in the suggestions of
eidetic images: "Our voices, when / We whisper together / Are quiet and meaningless / As wind in dry grass / Or rats' feet over broken glass / In our dry cellar." In these quick lines, however, the similes link meaninglessness with a surprising excess.
me ...) That's what I mean by the expression "
eidetic violence." That's the unkindness of the muses.
Each takes as a title a hotel name: "Hotel Consumptive," "Hotel
Eidetic," "Hotel Voluptuary." They sing of the body animated, degraded, celebrated.
He has stayed out of jail by defending himself in court, where he displays a withering command of pertinent case law (he has an
eidetic memory).
In his travel writing, asserts Jack Stewart, Lawrence 'responds more directly to the world' than when working in other genres, and, with his
eidetic memory, recreates scenes and episodes with stunning clarity.