Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our d… - Rollo May

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Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

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Rollo Reece May (21 April 1909 – 22 October 1994) was an American humanistic and existential psychologist, authoring the influential books Psychology and the Human Dilemma and Love and Will along with several other volumes explaining and expanding on his theories.

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Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our def… - Rollo May

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