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What Does Art Have To Do With It?
“Art altogether is nothing but a survival skill, we should never lose sight of this fact, it is, time and again, just an attempt…an attempt that seems touching even to our intellect…to cope with this world and its revolting aspects… All these pictures…are an expression of man’s absolute helplessness in coping with himself and with what surrounds him all his life. That is what all these pictures express, this helplessness which, on the one hand, embarasses the intellect and, on the other hand, bewilders the same intellect and moves it to tears.”
~Thomas Bernhard
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IMAGINAL LOVE ❤
′′ Whatever nature is, there is a love in dream work: we warn that dreams are benevolent, they back us and push us, they understand us deeper than we understand ourselves, they expand our sensuousness and our spirit, they invent us Always new things to offer us… and this feeling of being loved by images permeates the analytical relationship. Let’s call it IMAGINAL LOVE, a love based entirely on the relationship with images and through images, a love that reveals itself in the two partners’ imagination response to imagination at work in dreams. Is this platonic love? It’s similar to the love of an old man whose imminent death has emptied his usual personal content and yet it’s still intense, playful and tenderly, caringly intimate love…
