Bellesa, quin bell neguit

Art, beauty, reality. Taking as a departure a confession in which Freud warns us that psychoanalysis has nothing to say about beauty (Das Unbehagen in der Kultur), the author inquires whether such an avowal really confirms itself in Freudian writings, or whether, on the contrary, it is possible to trace there certain ideas about the problem. It would perhaps be possible to find an <<origin,) for the beauty idea in some kind of sexual attraction, which would later be deviated from its source as a result of culture (Kultur) in its general meaning. Beauty's appearance may be, perhaps, a result of a spiritual evolution of the object of sexual desire, and so at the time it is a calming effect vis-á-vis a nature whose power is always menacing for man. At least, in the origin of the idea of beauty there is a movement of refusal, a sensation of loathing. What relationship can we see between the Kantian theory on beauty and Freud's comments on the same matter? The attribution of beauty finds its remote origin in the attraction of the sexes.