Witasek insists, rather, that since aesthetic enjoyment is a genuine pleasure, it must be related to some genuine object of an appropriate sort. But what could this object be, in cases where our aesthetic pleasure is related to Gestalt structures of expression? Note, first of all, that here the genuine feeling of aesthetic pleasure as it unfolds through time manifests a dependence on and a sensitivity to the empathetic-sympathetic emotional arousal with which it is associated. Now the latter is a real phenomenon, which also manifests a real temporal unfolding. Witasek therefore suggests that aesthetic.
