Urge to abstraction: order and regularity
The art historian, Wilhelm Worringer, wrote a dissertation in 1906, which became his famous Abstraction and Empathy. […] Worringer stated that modern aesthetics was based […]
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Let us learn to play
“Freud was right in linking play and phantasy, but he was surely wrong in believing that play and phantasy should be abandoned in favour of […]
Significant moments
“The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in the universe through what he creates. […]
The need to link the real and the ideal
We are all deprived; we are all disappointed; and therefore we are all, in some sense idealists. The need to link the real and the […]
Subjective fulfilment in the world
The subjective can be so over-emphasized that the individual’s inner world becomes entirely divorced from reality. In that case we call him mad. On the […]