More archival than literal
1. Does "is more archival than literal" mean "is found more in the archives than being common"?
2. Does "have erupted" mean "have reappeared suddenly"?
3. Does "temporal dislocation" imply "delay"?
4. Does "essay of the same name" mean "essay titled Uncanny"?
Context:
While the Surrealists mined the Freudian text to evoke an unconscious that could be recognised in symbols and techniques, Freud’s contemporary legacy is more archival than literal. Texts that were not originally written about art at all have erupted into contemporary art discourse with as much temporal dislocation as the Freudian concept of the uncanny itself – Freud’s essay of the same name, written in 1919, erupting with particular force into the art world in the 1990s.
Top answer
catttt 1. Does "is more archival than literal" mean "is found more in the archives than being common"? I think it means that if an artist wants to make reference to Freud at this late date, he can't be literal any more the way the Surrealists were.
- catttt 1.
- Does "is more archival than literal" mean "is found more in the archives than being common"?
- I think it means that if an artist wants to make reference to Freud at this late date, he can't be literal any more the way the Surrealists were.
- He has to peruse him, as it were, and mine him like an archive.
- catttt 2.
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catttt1. Does "is more archival than literal" mean "is found more in the archives than being common"?
I think it means that if an artist wants to make reference to Freud at this late date, he can't be literal any more the way the Surrealists were. He has to peruse him, as it were, and mine him like an archive.
catttt2. Does "have
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