Sentences with phrase «depend upon past experience»

Freud's notion of the absence of time in the unconscious, for example, and Proust's reflection that «a single minute released from the chronological order of time has recreated in us the human being similarly released» lead to the same conclusion: the choice of individual reaction to events can not be a function of chance but must depend upon past experience, on the memory of some analogous event.

Not exact matches

To cut short an argument, I will affirm that all beauty depends upon relation of an experience to something other than that experience, and other than relation merely to the past experience of one and the same person or individual.

There would be considerable variation, depending upon the perceived need (or threat), past experience or unresolved issues in the parent, and cultural influences upon emotional expression.