ART AND THE UNCONSCIOUS
It seems an even better one, and even more exactly suggests the difference between expressionism and the earlier (“Hoffmannesque”) romantic concept from which it grew, when the sentence that immediately precedes it is reinstated. “Art,” declared Schoenberg to Kandinsky, “belongs to the unconscious!”5 He was using, as we would now say, a “buzzword.” Expressionism, especially as preached and practiced in Schoenberg’s Vienna, cannot be fully understood apart from the psychoanalytical movement that sprang up at the same time and in the same place. Both movements had the same compelling if paradoxical aim: to explore the human unconscious, in the one case through scientific inquiry, in the other through art.
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