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Ep. 246: Susan Sontag on Interpreting Art (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Transference Is the Highest, Most Liberating Value in Art and in Criticism

Transference is the highest, most liberating value in art and in criticism today. Transference means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself. This is the greatness of Breson or Ozur Renoirs,. So, some of this sounds a little bit high to Gary, am I right about that? Yeah, I think there's that there too, for sure. You see a lot of different influences in the writing but you could read some of this as a, there have been recent wars over theory...

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