In art, subjective stimuli remain apersonal, shaping ego integration without being absorbed by it.
Evidence
Only the subject can serve as an instrument of expressionno matter how mediate it is, though it imagines itself to be immediate. Where what is expressed still resembles the subject; where the stimuli are subjective, they are simultaneously apersonal, influencing the integration of the ego but not subsumed into it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 685
Categorization
- DEFINE: Distinguishes the apersonal element of expression from the ego’s own subjectivity.
- XREF: connects to: Self-admiration prevents the self-forgetting that artistic transcendence demands.; Art’s expression is the non-subjective trace within the subject — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2737; Artistic expression is not instinctual sublimation but an objective polemical self-revelation (+2 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Self-admiration prevents the self-forgetting that artistic transcendence demands.; Art’s expression is the non-subjective trace within the subject — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2737; Artistic expression is not instinctual sublimation but an objective polemical self-revelation (+2 more)