...successful, not only overturns a hierarchy but reverses it. Less than a page later, he writes: "But why should the artist's intention not be capable of...possible without the application of psychoanalysis. ... It is possible, therefore, that a work of art of this kind needs interpretation" (p. 212, emphasis...

...communicates by means of his work. All that interests him are the ideas transmitted, the intentions signified. "Why should the artist's intention not be capable...comprehended in words, like any other fact of mental life?"1 Such a conception would appear singularly narrow-minded if in this initial blindness a symptom...

...literature comes first. This quickly becomes evident as Freud continues. For example, he asks: But why should the artist's intention not be capable of being communicated and apprehended in words, like any other fact of mental life? (XIII, 212) This faith in the power of language...

...impetus to create [NB: he aims to make us unhappy in the same way he was]. But why should the art1st's intention not be capable of being communicated and...comprehended in words, like any other fact of mental life? Pethaps where great works of art are concerned this would never be possible without the application...