On Sep 24, 2007, at 11:08 AM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> In everything he wrote after about 1896. According to Freud, each
> of us
> has an unconscious mind distinct from the conscious mind, and the
> unconscious mind has a strong impact on conscious belief and action.
> For instance, Freud's psychohistory of DaVinci posits that his great
> works of art are a sublimation of the homosexual desires in his
> unconscious mind.
This is an incredibly mechanistic view of Freud's unconscious. And an incredibly reductive view of Freud's view of art. But I guess it's easier to argue with straw men than actual texts.
Doug