Sublimation and Desublimation:On Slavoj ?i?ek's Ontology of Art
Influenced by Lacanian psychoanalysis,Slavoj Žižek carried out the study of the ontology of art from the perspective of sublimation and desublimation,and he interpreted psychoanalysis with literature,artworks and cultural phenomena.Žižek believed that art is art because it takes the dignity of"the Thing"/"Das Ding",and the essence of art is external to art itself.Especially in modern art,art no longer follows the old sublimation formula,but reflects a tendency of desublimation.On the question of ontology of art,Žižek expands the depth of Lacan's theory,and at the same time combines Lacan's theory with Hegel's thought and critical theory,opening up the potential of interpretation and dialogue between psychoanalysis and contemporary art,and revealing the revolutionary potential and practical power of modernist art in breaking the"fantasy of post-ideology".