Sex, subtext,ur-text: Freud, Dora and the suggestive text

The Transformation of Aesthetic Precedent in the Art of Sieg Maandag

“…2 And yet participation in the tradition of reworking aesthetic precedent hardly precludes creative innovation: every generation revisits the cultural products and forms of the past, which infiltrate and inhabit the fantasy life of the individual (and cultural) unconscious, where they are reimagined and reconfigured into new creative works that in turn inform a deeper understanding of their predecessors (Borges, 1951(Borges, /1986. This continual, cyclical, and reciprocal transformation is in evidence in all the arts-visual, literary, and musical (Tutter, 2015(Tutter, , 2020.…”