
Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics
Why Theory
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The Work of Art Is a Wounded Wraith
The second that something gets to be enjoyed too much, there's a backlash. It's almost like this push and pull of unconscious appreciation for the lack in the object and then a whiplash to preserve that. And I think that, I don't know, it maybe all amounts to a kind of like cynical matrix that just keeps discourse revolving.
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