论审美意象的创构过程

意象创构的思想是中国古典美学中意象理论的重要内容。它源自《周易》的“观物取象”思想,并且形成了一个悠久的传统。该思想认为审美意象是审美活动中物我双向交流的产物,反映了个体的生命节奏与对象的感性生命的贯通,其核心乃在于情景合一。意象的创构以主体的审美经验为基础,通过主体独特的眼光和比兴的思维方式等,借助于想像力而达成的。这使得审美意象体现了虚实相生的特征。在意象的创构过程中,主体以感官尤其是心神体物,达到物我交融,并经由主体与对象的神合,在始终伴随着象的参与中实现了对道的体悟,从而也实现了人生理想与宇宙之道的贯通。

The Course of Aesthetic Imagery Creation

The thought of imagery creation is the key content of the imagery theory in the Chinese classical aesthetics. It originates from the idea of getting imagery from observation(guanwuquxiang) in Zhouyi,and it forms a long tradition.The thought considers the aesthetic imagery is the result of the interaction between the subject and the object in the aesthetic activity, the transfixion of one' s life rhythm and his life sensitivity to object,whose core still lies on the integrity between the feeling and the object. With the unique eyesight and the thinking method of the Bi and Xing,the imagery construction is completed by the imagination on the basis of the subject' s aesthetic experience. This makes the aesthetic imagery with the characteristics of the mutuality between Xu and Shi. During the course of the imagery creation, one should reach the state of the harmony between the object and subject on the condition of his getting the object by one' s mind, realizing the comprehension to the Dao in the participation of the imagery,and leading the road to the connection between the life ideal and the cosmos.