I´m looking for essays about image/portraits and its relationship with
health and psique of the model(s)
Luis Gaspar
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De: Film-Philosophy Salon [mailto:[log in to unmask]] En nombre
de Jason Rovito
Enviado el: domingo, 11 de marzo de 2007 20:39
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Asunto: Re: FILM-PHILOSOPHY Digest - 11 Mar 2007 (#2007-85)
Re: Freud and Film
in regards to the question: "why freud still (in light of recent
psychological discoveries)?" i'd like to make the following suggestion:
in many ways, it doesn't matter whether freud's theory was/is empirically
"correct" according to contemporary science. instead.. as an aesthetic in
and of itself.. as a poetic use of language.. freudian theory gives us the
potential to think of (and represent) things that are otherwise unthinkable
(and unrepresentable) in language.
while it may seem somewhat cavalier to suggest: "who cares about reality"
(or, as hegel says: "so much worse for the facts"), it's nonetheless
important to consider that psychoanalysis might be useful even if (and,
possibly, precisely because) it is UNrealistic.
in that sense, i'd suggest that you read freud's essay: "Constructions in
Analysis"... in which he comes very close to admitting the aesthetic nature
of his own theory (i.e. "IF moses was egyptian") and the relative
irrelevance (in lieu of effect/reception aesthetics) of whether a
psychoanalytic construction (offered to the analysand) is objectively
"correct."
ja.
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