Prompt: “The critic’s task is analogous to the psychiatrist’s. Agree or disagree?”
Salvador Dalí said, “The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.” Now we are being asked to make a distinction very like this one: Are the artist and his work of art a species of madness, and ought we to diagnose them as such? Read More“Don’t Analyze Literature from the Psychiatrist’s Chair”