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A Psycho-Analytical Approach to Aesthetics
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- 1952
Hanna Segal developed Depressive position
Segal carried Klein's depressive position into new fields: she made the mourning and recreation of the lost object the source of artistic creation and aesthetic experience (1952), and the condition for forming true symbols as opposed to symbolic equations (1957).
- 1952
Hanna Segal developed Reparation
In her aesthetics paper Segal made reparation the core of artistic creation: the artist, facing an inner world felt to lie in ruins, reassembles its fragments and recreates the lost object in the work, and the beholder shares in that mourning and recreation.