Saturday, October 10, 2009
Response To Freud's Perspective on Art and the "unconscious".
From the reading, “Art As Symptom”, the philosophical views of Sigmund Freud were concisely analyzed in relation to art. For example, Freud claims that dreams need to be understood as camouflaged wishes because the content of the dream relates that something (a specific dream) can be expressed as a thought, in which expresses either a sexual (erotic) or a self aggrandizing nature. Furthermore the artist’s unconscious is less repressed or hidden than others in which Freud argues that feeling a deep need to express unconscious thoughts and emotions, artists create works that like dreams are really the fulfillment of concealed wishes. In this situation Freud is most likely correct because artists do create an object in which their state of mind is portrayed on a pictorial basis. The question that comes to mind, is that does the unconscious delegate what the artist intends to be a work of art? This question can go in multiple directions, but how can humans (as critics) tell the difference between a work of art that has unconscious thoughts and emotions expressed throughout the art object or not? Honestly this question is tough to decipher because there is no mathematical equation that defines whether these thoughts are expressed, neither is the answer of a personal opinion? Basically the only way that this answer can be figured out is the artist has to state that the object contains or not contains unconscious thoughts and emotions, and how can that artist know cannot tell the difference without seeking professional help from a psychologist or a psychiatrist, such as Freud? Likewise human emotions are expressed throughout art but not unconscious thoughts and emotions that Freud discusses. In Freud’s Iceberg theory, the unconscious contains an immense amount of depth in which cannot be extracted instantaneously, such as conscious thoughts. The process of obtaining the unconscious thoughts goes through a process in which the thoughts from the unconscious have to be extracted from the preconscious by psychological methods. Possibly the unconscious can be expressed within many objects of art but the chances are minimal. To prove this point, most of Claude Monet’s paintings are colorful, creative, and beautiful, replicating common appearances of daily life. Therefore his current emotions were expressed without any type of unconscious thoughts but conscious ones that are most prevalent in human thought. So the main question I am going to ask, (confusing) is that for the unconscious thoughts and emotions to be ascended into the conscious, what necessary processes should be taken, and is the normal human aware of unconscious thoughts on a conscious basis?
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