Classical Aesthetics, Modem Ethics: Lacan, Kierkegaard, Sophocles, Anouilh

The Ethics of Aesthetics

The article explores the relationships between aesthetics, ethics, and new media art by discussing the process, influences, and consequences of aesthetic judgements. The text proposes that the aesthetic judgements of artworks created in any medium, including new media, function as mechanisms for propagating certain ethical values.

Lacan with

In 1953 Donald Winnicott was appointed to a committee by the then president of the IPA Heinz Hartman, to investigate the events surrounding and the resignations of various members of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and the founding of the Société Française de Psychoanalyse. Lacan up to the moment of his resignation from the Paris Society, had been its President and was one of those that the co...

The Tragic Human and Desire in “the Ethics of Psychoanalysis” Seminar V11 of Lacan Sublimation in the Psychoanalysis of Lacan and Freud by Colin Leslie Dean

Latino Studies With Lacan

Aesthetics with a Focus on the Concept of Ethics from the Perspective of Yuriko Saito

The paper examines the ethical dimension of Yuriko Saito’s aesthetics. Her recent work explicitly points to the inseparability of aesthetics from the rest of life, especially moral concerns. She believes that aesthetics requires overcoming the subject-object gap and adopting an open-minded attitude, responsiveness, interaction, and cooperation. These requirements not only define the nature of t...