Title of the paper:
“Don't look back - aesthetics of survival”
Abstract: Surface, even in times of pop-culture, continues to be a disdained category. When we think of beauty and sublime, we always consider the deep and profound more important than the surface. Novalis' Heinrich von Ofterdingen finds his famous blue flower in a mine, and the way to healing and fulfillment is usually deep inside ourselves.
But writers like Robert Walser or Richard Ford try desperately to stay at the surface, they can't look back, because they know that the result would be too hard to face. In the struggle for survival, therapy means to consciously avoid what is deep inside of us.
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