
Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics
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Is It a Cynicism or an Aesthetic Judgment?
Film critic Mike D'Angelo famously gave Citizen Kane a B plus. He was one of the first ones to do like blogging criticism online. I think that is a thing that happens in, and this is an aesthetic judgment where it's like an object can have too much attention. And so if you cut back on the cultural acclaim, you're almost giving more space for the aesthetic value to emerge again.
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