
Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics
Why Theory
00:00
Is Rosebud a Sublimate Object?
"I think a lot of people read Citizen Kane and say, the sled is Kane's sublime object. And we've found that it isn't," he says. "And so every work of art has all these different ways of relating to the absence." 'The greatness of the work of art is it tries to capture the object,' she adds. "'Titanic' was about this thing having value only in so far as it's wrecked',"'Rosebud'" will be released on September 14.
Transcript
Play full episode