Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Catharsis

Well, that previous post was supposed to be a paragraph, take 10 minutes. Ended up being 4 hours, and it's 3am. Let me just remark about how funny it is to me to look over my posts and see that the longer it is, the more disturbed my mental state was when I wrote it. If adversity and evil are truly the inspiration of all greatness and good, does that not make us who work to defeat them criminals against humanity? Not that my post was at all great or good, but generally speaking. Or maybe I am mistaken in my analysis of this coincidence. Maybe it is cathartic expression, and the source is not objective but rather affective. Would be highly annoying though, to admit that psychoanalysis could have gotten anything right.

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  1. So, when I was sixteen I just figured (after a long bout of madness, that is) that Art is the catharsis of Truth. It's worth a little evil to get it out. Even if it's not that great. Just a thought.

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