Monday, 28 April 2008

Quotes and notes from article "Splendor and Secrets of the Evident" Psychoanalysis and Philosophy in the Work of Erwin Wurm by Robert Pfaller

"Wurm's works provoke jocularity."

His work is "spontaneously and generally accessible for the public, probably even across most intercultural barriers.


Robert Pfaller describes this quality as "an international style" and a modernistic claim of universality."

The title "Kneel down and think about Sigmund Freud" mocks and plays against theory and psychoanalysis of his work.

"Where hidden things are expected, you can best hide something by leaving it completely unhidden on the surface. likewise , you can lie, when a lie is expected, by telling the truth, as Sigmund Freud demonstrated with this joke about two men on a train..."

"Does it constitute truth if one descibres things as they are and does not concern himself with the way the hearers will interpret what one has said?"

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