Class Eight Freud: Cultivation and Sublimation
ReadingsRead from p. 423 'Before I let you go ...' to the end of the chapter (p. 424 [not very long]). This is a short passage describing Freud's account of the hidden forces, and their resolution, at work in the artist. Sigmund Freud (1973), Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, ed. Angela Richards, trans. Richard Strachey, Middlesex.
Here is another short reading from an anthology edited, with short commentaries, by John Cottingham. Please read the introduction to 'The Partly Hidden Self: Sigmund Freud'. Cottingham is referring to Plato's 'Charioteer Allegory' from Republic, Ch.VI. Do you remember the white horse, the black horse and the charioteer, from the second class? John Cottingham (ed.) (1996), Western Philosophy: An Anthology, Oxford.
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