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- Title
Acteon’s tears reversed.
- Authors
Pina-Cabral, João
- Abstract
This article is a "thought experiment" that takes recourse to Lucien Freud's youthful portrait of himself as Acteon-the hunter whom the goddess Diana turned into a stag, as famously narrated by Ovid. In his drawing, Freud's crisis of presence is mobilized by a play on gender differentiation. More broadly, the piece is an exploration of what it involves being present as a person and of how personal transcendence opens up a propositional ontology that differs from the intentionality of life. The possibility of loss of personal transcendence is an ever-present preoccupation of humans wherever they are.
- Subjects
DIAGNOSTIC sex determination; THOUGHT experiments; GODDESSES; ONTOLOGY; POSSIBILITY
- Publication
Focaal, 2024, Issue 99, p111
- ISSN
0920-1297
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/fcl.2024.990109