
Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics
Why Theory
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The Greatest Works of Art
Do you know this painting by Turner, the super famous? I do know that I just, I've seen it. It's at the MFA, I think, in Boston,. The person who owned it, this is the story at least, I don't know if it's legend and myth or whatever but they had to get rid of it because they could not stop seeing the face. Every great work of art has that little skull in it. And the point of aesthetics is to create a value that allows us to look at that, to confront that skull in a different way.
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