ABSTRACT
Insights and criticisms develop in bits and pieces that are packed with multiple implications, only some of which can be realized at moment of conception. Like interpretations as described by Heinz Hartmann, insights and criticisms have "multiple appeal"; that is, all kinds of surprising consequences elsewhere in the mind than at the point of initial focus. In self-contradiction, Freud fell victim to two-edged sword, as have many analysts after him, for he and the others have tended to brush off feminist and other critics of psychoanalytic bias against non-normative sexual orientations and practices as expressions of penis envy or other problems with sexuality. In addition to Freud's era being the era of Darwin in metaphors of reality, it was also the era of the idealized powerful machine. Many concepts of beauty and art smack of that unexamined esthetic value judgment, that is, the judgment that normative moral correctness is essential to beauty. Esthetics serves as a vehicle for moral prescription.
