Sublime

The theory of compensation that these figures supposedly exemplify begins with Alfred Adler, the third, least-known, and shortest-lived member of the great therapeutic triumvirate of Freud, Jung, Adler. His studies of gifted personalities universalized the idea of compensation into a basic law of human nature. His evidence, gathered in art schools

What is too often missing is knowing what I want.

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all time, that expression is unique.”

The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud.

He cannot rely on his own emotions, has not come to experience them through trial and error, has no sense of his own real needs, and is alienated from himself to the highest degree. Under these circumstances he cannot separate from his parents, and even as an adult he is still dependent on affirmation from his partner, from groups, and especially f

Indeed, it is only after Freud that depictions of human absurdity have become commonplace.

‘The artist,’ said Mondrian, ‘spontaneously creates relationships in equilibrium – complete harmony [is] the goal of