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Beyond Discontent: 'Sublimation' from Goethe to Lacan (New Directions in German Studies) by
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"The production and reception of art neither brush aside not replace nor merely conceal that which is unbearable because it is monstrous. Art instead exposes what is monstrous-..- and makes possible its experience. Only through sublimation, Goethe teaches, does the monstrous scale of what is to be sublimated become apparent."
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"The production and reception of art neither brush aside not replace nor merely conceal that which is unbearable because it is monstrous. Art instead exposes what is monstrous-..- and makes possible its experience. Only through sublimation, Goethe teaches, does the monstrous scale of what is to be sublimated become apparent."

