FREITAS, Jorge Américo Vargas. Passages through Gestalt History: from Mach/Ehrenfels to Wertheimer/Koffka/Köhler. []. , 22, 1, pp.397-417.   17--2024. ISSN 1808-4281.  https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2022.66491.

The article intends to read texts that marked the history of Gestalt theory in its early stages of development. Thus, it seeks to rediscover the origins of the term from concepts such as Ernst Mach's Tongestalt and Christian von Ehrenfels's Gestaltqualitäten in order to reach the philosophical roots of Gestalt psychology. Next, focusing on the basis of Gestalt psychology, the research focuses on the Gestalt factors described by Max Wertheimer as general laws of the Gestalt theory, the introduction of Gestalt theory into the United States by Kurt Koffka from the presentation of the point of view of Gestalt over the theory of perception, and the clarification on the concept of insight by Wolfgang Köhler by the means of an exhaustive approach in layman’s terms. So the text tries to be able to show off the evolution of the concept of Gestalt over time and at the same time to connect a variety of definitions and facets of Gestalt.

: gestalt factors; gestaltqualitäten; gestalt-theorie; insight; tongestalt..

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