Concept in Definition ABC

When the word 'visceral' is used, it is used as a qualifying adjective to indicate that a thing, a attitude or a way of expressing yourself is very intimate, very passionate or very intense. Everything that is considered visceral will be something very felt, full of sensations (both positive as well as negative), in a sense related more to the impulsive and the instinctual what with what rational that a person can achieve in certain situations.

As the word says, when we use the term visceral we are referring to a way of expressing ourselves that comes from within ours, that is, it comes from our viscera (those organs located right in the middle of the organism such as the guts, the bowels). The idea that there is something that arises deep within us and that is brought out then gives the sensation that it is something natural, not rationalized, that appears through the impulse and that it does not always measure the consequences it can generate.

Obviously, social and behavioral patterns often mean that human beings do not truly act in accordance with their

feelings. It is the voluntary and involuntary repression of these sensations, feelings and thoughts that makes it possible for all of us to live together. However, certain situations that can generate violence, conflict, anguish, fear or even joy in abundant quantities are precisely those that make us have a visceral attitude or response, without measuring the way in which we express it or, perhaps doing it precisely to cause a certain type of reaction in those who witness our act.

In this sense, the art in many respects it has a greater relationship with visceral forms since it is always a more heartfelt and less rational way of expressing that human beings have. Thus, artists are sometimes seen as casual people, not repressed by social guidelines and who they let out of their being all those feelings and sensations that are born in their guts and that they cannot to silence.

Themes in Visceral