Dear Ken,
Exegesis is certainly a serious research approach and one not to use lightly.
Most humanities research applies a four fold approach that ensure a broad account of things that need to be covered in any investigation.
Historical
Analytical
Critical
Theoretical
I would anticipate that any written work that accompanied an art exhibition would need to cover all four of these approaches. Hence Freud would need to be covered, in the example you give, probably four ways.
The idea that one might simply elect to leave out any one of these four accounts, simply because one wanted to, is absurd.
Cheers
Keith Russell
Oz Newcastle
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Ken Friedman wrote
While one colloquial definition for an exegesis applies to term to any
critical explanation of a body of work, a scholarly exegesis entails far
more. Exegetics is a scholarly practice rooted in the arts of inquiry
and translation that gave rise to the applied science or scholarship of
hermeneutical inquiry in theology, law, geography, social science, and
other forms of human communication.
Exegetics is a powerful research tool with a rich body of methods that
require discipline, deep learning, careful inquiry, and skills practice
– that is, the skilled practice
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