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"The interest of psycho-analysis from the point of view of the [[science]] of [[aesthetics]]" (p. 187) is next stressed, opening the door to this [[form]] of "applied psychoanalysis" that has been of such importance in the history of psychoanalysis. But Freud cautiously states that "the motive forces of artists are the same conflicts which [[drive]] other [[people]] into [[neurosis]] and have encouraged [[society]] to [[construct]] its institutions. Whence it is that the [[artist]] derives his creative capacity is not a question for psychology" (p. 187). Art "constitutes a region half-way between a [[reality]] which [[frustrates]] wishes and the [[wish]]-fulfilling world of the imagination—a region in which, as it were, primitive man's strivings for omnipotence are still in [[full]] force" (p. 188).
The erotism underlying [[social]] relations and the [[repression]] required by the cohabitation of [[human]] beings are essential psychoanalytic contributions to "[[sociology]]." Hence, also, "the educational interest" (p. 189) of a science that becomes more familiar with [[The Real|the real ]] psychic life of the child and its evolution. "We grown-up people cannot [[understand]] [[children]] because we no longer understand our own childhood" (p. 189). Teachers learned from the discoveries concerning the "[[Oedipus]] [[complex]], [[self]]-[[love]] (or '[[narcissism]]'), the disposition to perversions, [[anal]] erotism, [and] sexual curiosity" (p. 189). Psychoanalysis "can also show what precious contributions to the [[formation]] of character are made by these asocial and [[perverse]] instincts in the child, if they are not subjected to repression but are diverted from their original aims to more valuable ones by the [[process]] known as '[[sublimation]].' Our highest virtues have grown up, as reaction formations and sublimations, out of our worst dispositions" (p. 190).
[[Alain|ALAIN ]] DE MIJOLLA
See also: [[Anthropology]] and psychoanalysis; Applied psychoanalysis and the interactions of psychoanalysis; Ego; [[France]]; [[Imago]]. Zeitschrift für die Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften. "[[On the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement]]"; Psychoanalytic [[epistemology]]; [[Sociology and Psychoanalysis|Sociology and psychoanalysis]], sociology.
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