anthony storr
Urge to abstraction: order and regularity
The art historian, Wilhelm Worringer, wrote a dissertation in 1906, which became his famous Abstraction and Empathy. […] Worringer stated that modern aesthetics was based […]
Let us learn to play
“Freud was right in linking play and phantasy, but he was surely wrong in believing that play and phantasy should be abandoned in favour of […]
The need to link the real and the ideal
We are all deprived; we are all disappointed; and therefore we are all, in some sense idealists. The need to link the real and the […]