Representing the RealThis study offers a new perspective on the object represented by art, specifically by art that succeeds to create in its receiver a sense of "the real", a sense of approximating the true nature of the represented object that lies outside the artwork. The object that cannot be accessed through a concept, a meaning or a sign, the thing-in-itself, is generally rejected by philosophy as being outside the realm of its concerns. This rejection is surveyed in a number of philosophical discussions, from Kant to Hilary Putnam. Turning to the psychoanalytic object, an object inexhaustible in terms of its external existence, or in terms of its conceptual status or meaning (the object is always suppressed, partly known, inaccessible), another notion of the object. The Real is suggested as what can neither be contained in language nor reduced to a linguistic referent. This solution does not lead away from philosophical interests but rather exposes this dilemma about the object of representation as fundamentally philosophical. Cases of artistic realism discussed range from perspective painting to abstract art, from tragedies to the literary representation of minds. |
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... already replaced the concept of " realism " with that of the " effect of the Real " , since I wish to retain the term " realism " for critical and philosophical traditions that have contributed to the Realism - anti realism debate ...
... already replaced the concept of " realism " with that of the " effect of the Real " , since I wish to retain the term " realism " for critical and philosophical traditions that have contributed to the Realism - anti realism debate ...
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... already reveals that various , incompatible interpretations of the same " thing " encounter the same limit of the Real . Abstract art . with its non - figurative , non- representational standing in the history of art , is touched by the ...
... already reveals that various , incompatible interpretations of the same " thing " encounter the same limit of the Real . Abstract art . with its non - figurative , non- representational standing in the history of art , is touched by the ...
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... already part of the mind which refers to , per- ceives or cognizes it . The truth of the object is by necessity something that affects , and is constituted by , the human psyche ; any other way of locating the object must necessarily be ...
... already part of the mind which refers to , per- ceives or cognizes it . The truth of the object is by necessity something that affects , and is constituted by , the human psyche ; any other way of locating the object must necessarily be ...
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... already be seen in the tortuous attempts of Kant to give the object - in - itself its due place in his ontology , while insisting on the inability to say anything about the nature of that object and simultaneously stressing that what ...
... already be seen in the tortuous attempts of Kant to give the object - in - itself its due place in his ontology , while insisting on the inability to say anything about the nature of that object and simultaneously stressing that what ...
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... already implies that transcendental idealism was exam- ined by Kant in different argumentative contexts which are not of one piece . One important aspect of Guyer's study is that each formulation made by Kant is both contextualized ...
... already implies that transcendental idealism was exam- ined by Kant in different argumentative contexts which are not of one piece . One important aspect of Guyer's study is that each formulation made by Kant is both contextualized ...
Contents
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Correspondence Truth as NonMetaphysical doctrine | 44 |
The NonDialectical Relation of Object to Knowledge | 52 |
INTERPRETING WITH THE REAL | 58 |
4b Resistance to Meaning in the Interpretation of Dreams | 79 |
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE OBJECT OF | 89 |
THE CASE | 123 |
Naturalism Versus Conventionalism | 132 |
REALISM OF MIND | 164 |
CONCLUSION | 203 |
INDEX | |
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Page 182 - She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of- to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.
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