The Oedipus Redemption Of Aesthetics And Anthropology

Being a great doctrine of 20th century, cultural anthropology aims to the study of human culture, and provides activated carriers for the study of aesthetics by means of the unique fieldwork. As an involved way of question, literature and aesthetics self-consciously explore the ultimate existence of human's life and the occurrence and function of arts and aesthetics from the angle of ontology. As the sciences of human, aesthetics and anthropology are mainly limited to the research achievements of the modern psychology, in which the theory of Freud's psychoanalysis is the most influential and developmental.There is a close relationship between psychoanalysis aesthetics and anthropology. Freud inheriting Darwin's doctrine considered human in a unconscious way and looked for the existence of human nature at the edge of anthropology. Freud's abstruse psychology not only describes mental phenomena, but also explores mental motives; and not only reveals mental regulations, but also explores the mental mechanisms of the unconscious. This thesis will concentrate on opening a new indentation on knowing man and culture in Freud's psychoanalysis aesthetics and anthropological thoughts, and explore Freud's aesthetics road between the desire of Oedipus complex and the mirage.Oedipus complex is the core category of Freud's aesthetics and anthropological thoughts, and it is the effective tool for his explanation about aesthetics and anthropology. Freud explored the origin of arts and the occurrence of aesthetics at the unique angle from totem and taboo. Aesthetics penetrates Freud's psychoanalysis. Freud's aesthetic thoughts take the desire as the object. They seek the redemption of arts and aesthetics between fantasy and reality, and therefore achieve the psychological and medical effect of arts and aesthetics. The fantasy world and the contradictory psychology to the desire constitute the beginning of cultural psychology. Freud makes an imaginary and real stroke on the anthropological page. He reveals the fixations of traumatic experience in human childhood in culture. Freud's myth is a metaphor for the great fault of the mankind: To kill father and be attached to mother. A cultural history is a history of atonement. Arts and aesthetics aren't the privileged domain. The fantasy of aesthetics is the effective expression of Oedipus desire mechanism. Oedipus complex becomes the eternal cross on the shoulder of human.This thesis will take Oedipus complex as the angle and explain Freud's...