Expression begins where it endsthinking, so said Albert Camus, and we could add - and emotions begin. Indeed, the question of what expression is, you can answer from the side of psychology, art and even genetic engineering. But the essence, the core of this word, is contained in one very expressive noun - extreme. The extremes of thoughts, movement, way of life, impulses, speed. Perhaps, with this and begin.
The Latin word ex-pressio, that is -extrusion, squeezing, pumping, makes us look at the concept we know from the other side. That is, literally the word expression meant forcible evocation of any feelings and emotions.
Our dictionaries treat this bright word differently and closer to the usual perception - expressiveness, sensuality, emotionality on the verge of exposing the person.
But in fact, expression - it's pretty capriciousdiagnosis, which is carried out in a certain cultural layer according to the parameters adopted in this society for the norm. Let's admit, there is nothing reprehensible for a Russian person in that, while greeting with a friend, hold his hand in his. For a true British, somehow not brought up on friendly bodily contacts, such a gesture will look expressive, if not to say - abnormal.
Psychology does not believe that expression issensual-emotional behavioral manifestation, because a person demonstrating himself, presents a significant part of his personality not in words or deeds, but in his own image. The power of feelings, our self-expression based on a solid foundation of beliefs, habits, and "emotional blindness" (visually assessing others, but not ourselves) - all this is postponed in a manner to dress, wear make-up, neatness or slovenly appearance.
Expressive personality is present in everyone,because synonyms of expression are color, juiciness, vividness of nature, and there is not a single person who does not periodically experience a bright rise, strength, relief - everyone knows this feeling, a hot wave rising from the inside. Only someone is enough to drink a cup of coffee to rise to the height of emotions, and someone needs to make internal overcoming, to achieve recognition.
The most vivid and expressive manifestationExpression we meet in art, whether it's an exciting picture, a violin concert or an incendiary dance. To evaluate the product as an example of expression, you do not need to go into analysis. If you felt in yourself a spiritual movement, then, what caused it, is expressive in one way or another.
Theophanes the Greek with his "living" icons, Hieronymus Bosch,overturning consciousness of the unprecedented horror of their paintings, - expressionists. Michael Flatley, the almost forgotten King of Dance (Ireland), Isadora Duncan - Expressionists. The era of expressionism is considered the flowering of the Gothic trend in Western Europe, and now the same title was awarded the creative fruits of the hi-tech direction.
Internal expression can not be hidden, becausethat a person is not able to give up his personality. An evil unsociable recluse will be able to change the true face to the mask of a good-natured "roommate," but in less than ten minutes, the moroseness will begin to wade through a smile. This is the same as if the cripple suddenly starts to pretend to be healthy. Would they believe him?
What is expression and how it works, goodWatch on revolutionary-minded people, energy generators and pendulums that swing the entire surrounding world around them. Their secret in the directed action of their spiritual uplift, is that they carry their spark with a confident understanding that it shines and heats, and not shyly hiding it under the hollow. Therefore, the main synonym of expression, which stands in the first place, is brightness. A bright personality is always expressive, for the uncovering of feelings is a mirror - everyone who looks at it will see the essence. In a mirror, curtained with complexes and prejudices, cobwebbed, and nobody wants to look.
The lexical meaning of expression is an expressive, vivid manifestation of emotions and personal qualities of a person.
Expression of a healthy person is always adaptive tosociety, which forms a cultural cell. Laughter is a normal reaction to a joke, and it will be understood as a resident of Africa, and an Australian settler. But the duration of a natural reaction to an anecdote, the strength of its manifestation, and the nature of additional gestures are regulated by the principles of admissibility in a particular environment. This applies to other examples of the universal language of expressiveness: crying, sadness, joy, ecstasy, fear.
The norms regulated by socium do not seem to be stronglimiting, but only because each of us is brought up in terms of what is permissible and what is not. People whose inner world does not fit into the established framework, and there are true expressionists.
What is the expression of genes can be understood only by knowing the approximate structure of the cell and the information it carries.
Any person is a puzzle from tightly fittedcells, and all of them within the limits of 50 trillion. Within each cell is a nucleus, but in itself it is only a shell for a valuable set of DNA, which forms a chain around the concentrate of our personality - the chromosome. Information in the chromosome is information about the color of our eyes, the shape of the nails, the dryness or fat content of the skin. This information is not merged into a single reservoir, but strictly divided into bricks - genes. If we only imagine that the set of each cell contains 20 thousand genes, then the complexity of each individual becomes clear. We simply have to be individuals, having such a spectrum of oppositions.
Like humans, each of the genes has its ownduty, which he "takes out" or not. Someone regularly makes recycling, but someone modestly keeps silent on the side. And this is, in fact, the expression of genes - the nature of their activity. This can not be called a deviation - it is impossible for everyone to work at the same speed, and invariably some of the genes will have high expression, and some - low. This is not good or bad, it's an absolute norm.
The science that studies gene expression is a geneengineering, puts ahead of itself the tasks familiar to us except in fantasy films. One of the purposes entrusted to the study of gene expression is eternal youth.