Is there any method to distinguish and measure self-censorship in visual artworks based on the displacement phenomena? Can intensifying some characteristics of a literary text like irony be assumed as a representation of author's self-censorship?
Dear Gloria Lee Mcmillan , sorry it was better to say Freudian displacement concept which may occur during the process of self-censorship, for instance the use of metaphor or metonymy in some texts by the writer or author glossing over explicit idea.
all art is "metaphor or metonymy by the author glossing over explicit idea" - art never is explicit -
If a work of art seems to be explicit (f.e. Duchamp's "Ready Made") - it becomes a critique of all that's around = of art itself.
Or of every day life: actions of real persons become theatre on a stage.
Even explicit actions (Jan Fabre's Mount Olympus )
Real life is explicit - art never is.
Even "the origin of the world" by Courbet is not explicit because of the simple fact that it's a painted image.
Freud: art is sublimation.
Lacan: art wraps itself around a "synthome"
Transfering the realm of the real things to the symbolic.
Dear Willy LJ Van Buggenhout
thank you for your comment, I see that generally a work of art is an indirect issue but overuse of figures of speech in Iranian literary works for instance, has took place during eras with maximum of tyranny. It can propose that poets have self-censored themselves to eschew any pursuit, by displacement some direct characters in the cover of metaphoric items, or overusing the figures of speech to postpone or wrapping the direct intended idea.
Can self-censorship cause "overusing" ornamental issues, figures of speech in literary works and decorative quality in visual artworks?
I hope I have been able to clarify what I meant.
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