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Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics

Why Theory

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Sublimation and the Psychoanalytic Theory of Value

The work of art itself comes from this place of lack and a place of sublimation, that's how there can even be an audience for it at all. It is because we're all sharing in the same psychical phenomena. What the artist has made sublime speaks to something that the audience also finds. They find their own sort of the touch of sublimity in the same thing. And I like that idea that you have the triangle of all the three working together.

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