ABSTRACT
The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling. In this corruption of adolescent life there has been a serious loss of the capacity of the young to contribute to the society. The man who fails to achieve freedom knows only two enemies: unquestioning submission and implusive rebellion. The inner harmony between social adaptation and self-assertion has to be reformed in every new environment. Psychoanalysis might see Sartre's attitude to society as a symbolic posture of hate directed at the 'environment' which created him, but did not 'facilitate' his growth to a human identity. The observations of psychoanalysis confirm love as the basis of all human capacities. Love is the attempt of the Self-seen-as-object to absorb another's freedom by making itself the highest reality, the ground of all significance for that freedom.
