ABSTRACT
The aesthetic moment is a caesura in time when the subject feels held in symmetry and solitude by the spirit of the object. As the aesthetic moment constitutes a deep rapport between subject and object, it provides the person with a generative illusion of fitting with an object. The object is 'the hand of fate'. The aesthetic experience is an existential recollection of the time when communicating took place primarily through this illusion of deep rapport of subject and object. The transformational object seems to promise the beseeching subject an experience where self fragmentations will be integrated through a processing form. The mother's idiom of care and the infant's experience of this handling is one of the first if not the earliest human aesthetic. The aesthetic moment is an experience of 'rapt, intransitive attention' a spell which holds self and Other in symmetry and solitude.
