Do you think "in their working through" in the following context mean
1. in the understanding of those painful experiences by the audience
or
2. in the struggling of art with those painful experiences ?
Context:
For Freud, the social address of art means that it is on the side of the pleasure principle, as even when it presents painful experiences there is a yield of pleasure in their working through. Freud separates art from the ‘tendencies beyond the pleasure principle’ which are ‘more primitive than it and independent of it’.
catttt 1. in the understanding of those painful experiences by the audience This one, but she expressed it oddly.
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catttt1. in the understanding of those painful experiences by the audience
This one, but she expressed it oddly.