Visual Art Lacanian Money
posted by on March 13 at 13:16 PM
The most interesting bit of information in this art story is not directly connected to the sexy painting below, Femme nue couchée…
…But another Courbet that was also once owned by a wealthy Hungrian art collector, Baron Ferenc Hatvany, and sold not long after he lost his fortune to the Communists:
In 1955 L’Origine du monde was sold at auction for 1.5 million francs. Its new owner was the famous psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.
For those who don’t know Lacan;
GIVEN MAN’S RELIANCE ON LANGUAGE for entrance into the symbolic order…it is not surprising that, according to Lacan, we are not even in control of our own desires since those desires are themselves as separated from our actual bodily needs as the phallus is separated from any biological penis. For this reason, Lacan suggests that, whereas the zero form of sexuality for animals is copulation, the zero form of sexuality for humans is masturbation.
For those who don’t know L’Origine du monde (and, yes, this is not safe for work): CLICK.
Une femme est une femme, mais un philosopher est un homme.
Before Will in Seattle starts crying NSFW, I'd like to say that philosophers will always be boring.
Dang, I was going to say that Mr. Poe was being boring ...
Thank you, Charles! Other blog posters, take note.
It's sad that a work of art can be considered NSFW.
Is that where the tube-socks-in-porn thing came from?
Un homme est un homme, mais une philosophere est une femme.
Look, French is sexist. A friend of mine, Elisabeth Vonarburg, tried to write a non-gendered SciFi novel in French (her native tongue), and it's darned hard.
doesn't make it sexist, just gender-oriented. Oh god, that sounds like such euphamistic political correctness...
but you get my point.
Shouldn't that be "mais un philosophe"?
Heh. The slog post below, 5 minutes older, has 54 comments to the 7 of this one. And it's about French Canadians and ribs.
@ 8, you are right. i will make the change.
My favourite philosopher, and one of my favourite paintings, together in one post with new (to me) info: Lacan OWNED L'Origine du monde???
Charles Mudede, you are the best!
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