Sigmund Freud inaugurated aesthetical thinking in Psychoanalysis mainly via the "Uncanny" as aesthetical affect.Freud, Sigmund, "The Uncanny" (1919). Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Work of Sigmund Freud, 17: 234–236. London, England: The Hogarth Press. Following Freud and Merleau-Ponty,Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1964), The Visible and the Invisible. Northwestern University Press. . Jacques Lacan theorized aesthetics in terms of sublimation and the Thing.Lacan, Jacques, "The Ethics of Psychoanalysis" (The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Book VII), New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992.
Sigmund Freud inaugurated aesthetical thinking in Psychoanalysis mainly via the "Uncanny" as aesthetical affect.Freud, Sigmund, "The Uncanny" (1919). Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Work of Sigmund Freud, 17: 234–236. London, England: The Hogarth Press. Following Freud and Merleau-Ponty,Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1964), The Visible and the Invisible. Northwestern University Press. . Jacques Lacan theorized aesthetics in terms of sublimation and the Thing.Lacan Jacques, "The Ethics of Psychoa,nalysis" (The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Book VII), New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992.