Ok so after a couple of days of intense discussions with friends about various stuff, i came up with the following thought: People’s mindset is a mixture of the homo economicus and sexuality.
By “sexuality” is meant the sum of all desires that do not result from immediate economic pressures, such as things that don’t result in money or physical possessions of any sort. According to some 20th century psychologist “Freud” basically all art is the transformed sexuality of people. The english wikipedia article states it badly because it says that this process only happens because the original sexual urge is suppressed or not allowed, while the german literature speaks of it more neutrally, as something that just happens. There’s also a lot of similar concepts such as eros which say:
Eros (/ˈɪərɒs/, US: /ˈɛrɒs, irɒs, -oʊs/; from Ancient Greek ἔρως (érōs) ‘love, desire’) is a concept in ancient Greek philosophy referring to sensual or passionate love, from which the term erotic is derived. Eros has also been used in philosophy and psychology in a much wider sense, almost as an equivalent to “life energy”. Psychoanalysis uses the term to describe the universal desire that drives all innate needs (of the id), which according to Freud is identical to Plato’s conception.
So the process goes something like that: you want to impress the girl next door, but to do that, you need to create some artwork to show her that you’re worthy, thus creating art as a byproduct, which is exactly what is meant: “all art is the result of transformed sexuality”.


Mostly persuasive, but I’m not sure I really believe in homo economicus. I think it’s more something like that quote misattributed to Oscar Wilde: “Everything in human life is really about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.”