avowal and Representation in Magritte’s »La trahison des images«

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  • Jos de Mul

Abstract

Taking René Magritte’s painting La trahison des images as a starting point, this essay examines the role disavowal (Verleugnung) plays in the aesthetic experience of visual representations. It argues that aesthetic disavowal is closely related to sexual disavowal, as it is interpreted by Freud and Mannoni in their texts on fetishism. Next, this interpretation of aesthetic disavowal is related to the poststructuralist theories of representation of Lacan, Barthes and Derrida, resulting in a surrealist ‘deconstruction’ of the psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theories of representation.

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2016-01-24

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de Mul, J. (2016). avowal and Representation in Magritte’s »La trahison des images«. Filozofski Vestnik, 17(2). Retrieved from https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/3953

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Vol. 17 No. 2 (1996): The Seen / Le vu

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