William Blake (1757 – 1827) viewed the political as inseparable from art, ethics, sexuality and the imagination. It was about the emancipation of desire, not its manipulation. Desire for Blake was an infinite delight, and his whole project was to rescue it from the repressive regime of priests and kings.
His sense of how sexuality can turn pathological through repression is strikingly close to Freud's (1856 – 1939). To see the body as it really is, free from illusion and ideology, is to see that its roots run down to eternity.
"If the doors of perception were cleansed," Blake claimed, "everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
Blake's Ancient of Days. The "Ancient of Days" is described in Chapter 7 of the Book of Daniel. This image depicts Copy D of the illustration currently held at the British Museum.[84]
His sense of how sexuality can turn pathological through repression is strikingly close to Freud's (1856 – 1939). To see the body as it really is, free from illusion and ideology, is to see that its roots run down to eternity.
"If the doors of perception were cleansed," Blake claimed, "everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
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