Deciphered ecstasy
Kaltenbeck, Franz
Deciphered ecstasy - 2020.
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In his essay on Proust (1930), Samuel Beckett explains Proust’s idea of the function of art. Art has the quality of “brightness.” Due to this quality, art can decipher the “baffled ecstasy” that the narrator of À la recherche du temps perdu experienced when faced with “the inscrutable surfaces” of certain objects. Unlike Schopenhauer’s aesthetics, the objects that trigger Proust’s ecstasies are not extraordinary. Beckett nevertheless specifies that the “mystery, the essence, the Idea” are “imprisoned in matter.” By rereading Proust and Beckett, we analyze the deciphering of ecstasy by art and its impact on psychoanalysis.
Deciphered ecstasy - 2020.
49
In his essay on Proust (1930), Samuel Beckett explains Proust’s idea of the function of art. Art has the quality of “brightness.” Due to this quality, art can decipher the “baffled ecstasy” that the narrator of À la recherche du temps perdu experienced when faced with “the inscrutable surfaces” of certain objects. Unlike Schopenhauer’s aesthetics, the objects that trigger Proust’s ecstasies are not extraordinary. Beckett nevertheless specifies that the “mystery, the essence, the Idea” are “imprisoned in matter.” By rereading Proust and Beckett, we analyze the deciphering of ecstasy by art and its impact on psychoanalysis.
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