In the presence of art, education involuntarily takes place – and not just there. However it is certainly easier to notice here than in everyday life, where images are always occurring to us. This can neither be halted nor can it be promoted with precision. The experience of psychoanalysis however shows that images which occur to us do not only have the capacity to educate, but can also lead to rigidification, even to foolishness. The need to protect oneself through imagined images can lead to an excessive distance to the world, to imaginary autonomy and confidence, to the point where unconscious protective images hardly allow any new experiences at all. This volume is about breaking through and letting go, expropriation, refusal, metamorphosis, dissolution, vacillation, rebuilding, and archetypes.
