Literary notes about technique (AI summary)
In literature, "technique" is a versatile term that spans both the artistic and the practical. In some works, it refers to specific methods or practices that enable both physical and spiritual transformation, as seen in texts on yoga where mastering a particular method unlocks deeper realms of experience [1, 2, 3]. In other contexts, authors use the word to denote the systematic methods of analysis, production, or representation within disciplines—from the scholarly examinations of sociological production and music to the evaluative critique of an artist's skill [4, 5, 6]. Moreover, "technique" is often linked to the methodological frameworks underpinning various arts and sciences, whether in precise psychoanalytic practice [7, 8] or in the execution of literary and visual arts [9, 10]. In each instance, the term underscores the blend of methodical discipline and creative innovation that characterizes human endeavor in both the tangible and abstract realms.
- "His mastery of a certain yoga technique gave him access to an astral plane where any desire is immediately materialized.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - He initiated me into a kria technique which frees the body from dependence on the gross food of mortals.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - The ancient yogic technique converts the breath into mind.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - TECHNIQUE Certain elements are found, but in varying degree, in all human speech.
— from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems - These improvements in the technique of production are the dynamic element that brings about what we call progress in society.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - The whole technique of music is but an immense elaboration of this principle.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - Psychoanalysis is characterized as a science, not by reason of the subject matter it handles but by the technique it employs.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - In psychoanalytic therapy we make use, as you know, of that technique which is already familiar to you from the interpretation of dreams.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - This stanza shows Spenser's wonderful technique.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser - The making of pictures should pass to an interest in the technique of representation and the æsthetics of appreciation, and so on.
— from How We Think by John Dewey
