A collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic entities that creates a unified concept, configuration or pattern which is greater than the sum of its parts (of a character, personality, or being)
This biography is the first one to consider fully the writer's gestalt.
In psychology, a gestalt is something that has particular qualities when you consider it as a whole which are not obvious when you consider only the separate parts of it. a whole thing that is different from all its parts, and has qualities that are not present in any of its parts by themselves
a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts
A perceptual pattern or structure possessing qualities as a whole that cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts
A physical, biological, psychological, or symbolic configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that its properties cannot be derived from a simple summation of its parts
A collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic entities that creates a unified concept, configuration or pattern which is greater than the sum of its parts
A German word for "form", defined as an organized whole in experience The Gestalt psychologists, about 1912, advanced the theory which explains psychological phenomena by their relationships to total forms rather than their parts