Research On The Western Desublimation Of The Theoretical Arts

Literary phenomenon in the period of instrumental rationality around the understanding of Aesthetics reflects a trend of diversity, common and meretricious, and contradictions produced between arts and the reality, which creates a condition for the further and comprehensive development of arts as well as brings about a dilemma of arts development. Researches related on the field from modern and contemporary arts have obtained certain achievements. Though, it still needs a further study on the overall research for contemporary arts from the view of developed technology and the values and the aesthetic approaches brought by it. Then western Desublimation art theory offers us an enlightening theoretical perspective. This paper, however, attempts to surmise the theory of arts Desublimation by the respective research of Marx, Engels, Floyd and Marcuse.Part one is the theory of Desublimation from Marx and Engels, who regard Desublimation as aesthetic review principle of the proletariat, and hold that this theory mainly reflects the happiness of most people not the so-called elegant tastes of minority’s interests and values. The perspective of whose reflects the awareness of the class consciousness, literature consciousness and pursuit of the truth of the masses in the capitalist society; Meanwhile, the Desublimation theory pays attention to reveal the essence of the relations of production about the unreasonable social orders, criticize the thoughts about mediating the class conflicts and liberating the workforce via harmonious being with the capitalist class, advocate that art activities truly reflect and realize the pursuit for freedom, love and human rights of proletariat, create arts which can reflect the aesthetic interest of the proletariat, can stimulate their revolutionary emotion to literate themselves.Part Two hackles Floyds Desublimation at the theory of Psychoanalysis. Floyd puts forwards the famous theory of Sexual Sublimation and Theory of Civilization, Based on the analysis of libido and civilization. He thinks that the civilization actually is the result of depressing human’s sexual instinct and sublimating libido. And the Desublimation and the Sublimation are all human’s psychological instinct, which exist in the process of civilization’s development. Artistic creation is in fact the artist "subconsion" libido desire to meet results. In the process, prompting producing animal spirits "libido" is to be replaced by a more conscious on the lofty "beauty, love, truth," pursue, and realize the "happiness" seeking by suppressing the instinct. Artists’ sex drive is realized partially, and the real face of social life is hidden by the so called bobble objectives. Floyd’s theory of Sexual Sublimation try to tell us that Literary and artistic creation in the prevalence of sublimation phenomenon demonstrates the hypocrisy of human civilization as a whole and deceptive, people must rethink and reposition the meaning and valve of the civilization. The Desublimation recovers the ’"unreal coat ", make people realize that artistic creation in fact is the process of exploring the sexual desire of the subconscious to all the people by using certain skills, and the origins of art---sexual instinct is shown nakelt. In the psychological structure, The Desublimation is setted against the Sublimation, it resists the universal ideals and the values of the society, meanwhile, it is the performance beyond the psychological instinct. The study for the essence of civilization exhibits the thinking tendency "civilization to sex", which is the reverse derivation of sublimation’s "sex to civilization", then it has the significance of Desublimation.Part Three is the comprehensive discussion from Marcuse, who combines the anthropological basis formed by met psychology of Floyd and Marxism Sociology with practical, emancipator characteristics, combined with the reality of highly developed science and technology of20th, makes the theory of Desublimation more systematic and comprehensive. He holds that the Desublimation is the revolutionary form of arts, the most prominent characteristic of Arts especially in the period of highly developed science and technology. Marcuse attempts to establish a Utopia via the Desublimation, where reasonable civilization and unreasonable sexual desire are harmonious. The realization of this aim needs the Arts-Aesthetic new perceptual form, which is a new idea of sexual liberation. Meanwhile, he reveals the dialectic relations between the Desublimation and the Sublimation, which not only contact each other but also distinguish each other.The innovation of this paper lies in its uniqueness in selecting the topic and the novelty of the contents. The research method is case study based on a thorough literature review. The objective of the paper is to supply a degree of reference for the concepts of value and aesthetic feeling mode in the modern and the contemporary time. Limited by my research perspective and the depth of thinking, the exploration of this issue is, though still need a great improvement, constructive and significant in explaining the Fragmentation, Mechanization, Conscious Stream, Body writing, etc. and the theories exploration as well.