George Steiner God is always present in a good work of art, literature and music. George Steiner says that in his book, Real Presences . That God enters our being and asks us to change ourselves. Good literature, art and music have the power to change us. They touch our souls, in other words. Psychology tells us that a lot of our attitudes and behaviour are determined by our subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is the seat of all the suppressed emotions which can take the shape of the devil at times – when we lose our cool, for example. It is this subconscious mind that good literature touches, that good music soothes or good art cools. The suppressed feelings undergo transformation under the influence of good art, literature or music. That transformative power is God, in Steiner’s words. Aristotle gave it a more secular name: catharsis. The process of writing is also deeply related to the subconscious mind. ...
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