In 1934 Hans Bellmer together with his brother Fritz constructed their first doll. This was followed by the publication of “Die Puppe” a pocket-sized book of ten photographs of the doll in various states of assemblage and in a variety of settings with an introductory text written by Hans called “Memories of a Doll Theme”... Read more
The essayist Robert Pinsky writes:
(An artist) needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond. The promise may be a contradiction, it may be unwanted, it may go unheeded.... but it is owed, and the sense that it is owed is a basic requirement for the poet’s good feeling about the art. This need to answer, as firm as a borrowed object or a cash debt, is the ground where the centaur walks. (1) Read more
According to Lacan, when Senatsprasident Schreber was promoted to one of the highest positions in the judiciary it forced him into an encounter with the One-Father (E,1977,577), the third term in the Oedipus complex that intervenes in the dyad and establishes the symbolic register... Read more