Ep. 246: Susan Sontag on Interpreting Art (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Modern Style of Interpretation Excavates and Digs Behind the Text to Find Meaning
"The modern style of interpretation excavates and as it excavates destroys, it digs behind the text to find the subtext," he says. "All observable phenomena are bracketed in Freud's phrase as manifest content ... The manifest content must be probed and pushed aside to find meaning... And so this is the latent content beneath" This isn't just about art: It's modern consciousness oriented towards these sorts of ideas, writes David Frum.
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