dissociate, dissociation of sensibility

Interestingly, most of the children showed little or no reaction to their failed attempts with the miniatures. A couple seemed a bit angry, a few looked sheepish, but most simply went on to do something else. We think the lack of reaction probably reflects the fact that toddlers' daily lives are full of unsuccessful attempts to do one thing or another.

Our interpretation is that scale errors originate in a dissociation between the use of visual information for planning an action and for controlling its execution. When a child sees a miniature of a familiar object, visual information--the object's shape, color, texture and so on--activates the child's mental representation of its referent.

かいり　解離

dissociation.
・～する　dissociate.

dissociation of sensibility, the separation of thought from feeling, which T. S. Eliot diagnosed as the weakness of English poetry from the Revolution of the 1640s until his own time. In his influential essay ‘The Metaphysical Poets’ (1921), Eliot argued that whereas in Donne and other pre‐Revolutionary poets ‘there is a direct sensuous apprehension of thought, or a recreation of thought into feeling’, from the time of Milton and Dryden ‘a dissociation of sensibility set in, from which we have never recovered’. This view had some influence in British and American criticism in the mid‐20th century, notably in the Cambridge school and among the New Critics, but it has frequently been challenged as a misleading simplification of literary history.


dissociate
v., -at·ed, -at·ing, -ates. v.tr.

1. To remove from association; separate: “Marx never dissociated man from his social environment” (Sidney Hook).
2. Chemistry. To cause to undergo dissociation.

v.intr.

1. To cease associating; part.
2. Biology. To mutate or change morphologically, often reversibly.
3. Chemistry. To undergo dissociation.

[Latin dissociāre, dissociāt- : dis-, dis- + sociāre, to unite (from socius, companion).]

dissociative dis·so'ci·a'tive adj.