An Encounter with a Statue

By | October 26th, 2019|LRO 186|

In his 1919 paper, The “Uncanny,”1 Freud wrote: "It is only rarely that a psychoanalyst feels impelled to investigate the subject of aesthetics even when aesthetics is understood to mean not merely the theory of beauty, but the theory of the qualities of feeling. He works in other planes of mental life and has little [...]