The paradoxes of aesthetic emotion: from horror to promise
Works of art have the power toevoke the paradox of a time and aspace prior to existence. This concernsthe subject itself and its desireto advance toward the unknownthrough aesthetics as a quality ofits feeling. Aesthetic emotion isaddressed here in its function ofindicating the reality of drives and...
- Autores:
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Zapata-Reinert, Luz
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2014
- Institución:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Repositorio:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/50250
- Acceso en línea:
- https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/50250
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/44227/
- Palabra clave:
- Creación
emoción estética
psicoanálisis
pulsión
síntoma
sufrimiento.
Création
émotion esthétique
psychanalyse
pulsion
symptôme
souffrance.
creation
aesthetic emotion
psychoanalysis
drive
symptom
suffering.
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
| Summary: | Works of art have the power toevoke the paradox of a time and aspace prior to existence. This concernsthe subject itself and its desireto advance toward the unknownthrough aesthetics as a quality ofits feeling. Aesthetic emotion isaddressed here in its function ofindicating the reality of drives andpointing to that which cannot bethought, that is, the unconscious.The article explores how aestheticfeeling can pave the way to subvertdrives and open it up to anotherfacet of existence, suggesting thataesthetic emotion serves an essentialfunction in dealing with horrorand clinging to the human, as wellas to the promise of a possible life.In this sense, the path involves anethical commitment. |
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