Samantha Scalsky - Art as Symptom

Sigmund Freud talks a lot about daydreams in his section in the Nature of Art book. I find most of his theories interesting, while I don't necessarily agree with them. He looks at art as a daydream and questions why people find others' works of art beautiful, when it is their unconscious wants and needs that are coming through in the painting. He also says that "works of art satisfy a specific type of wish on the part of the artist". I don't think I agree with his statement about how we should find others' works of art disgusting or appalling because I don't think it is their unconscious coming through. I believe that some of it may be coming from their unconscious, but I don't think that it is their "wishes or desires" that are being left alone in the unconscious.