Nietzsche and Freud: Pandora's box of transgressive contemporary art
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Kieran Cashell defines the art of transgression as influenced by the "dark troika" (Nietzsche, Freud, and Bataille). This paper examines Nietzschean and Freudian contributions to an art detached from traditional aesthetics like form, symmetry, and beauty, referred as "de immundo" by Jean Clair. It explores Nietzsche's early work, "The Birth of Tragedy," and its concepts of the Apollonian and Dionysian, linking them to Freudian psychoanalysis. The paper concludes by discussing Nietzsche's influence on psychoanalysis and contemporary transgressive art.
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