Fountain, Everything On The Part
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Abstract
It is inherent in liberal ideology to insidiously penetrate psyches, behaviours and industrial or cultural objects. As it invisibly conditions mentalities and tastes to better assert, enlarge and perpetuate its domination and alienation, it is the role of psychocriticism to primarily unveil the hidden mechanisms and mystifying meaning of this ideology, especially when the objects it creates take no textual form. Some of these unique, visual, text-less objects are not easily analyse by sociocriticism while they are supposed to be emancipating, in the same way as works of plastic arts are generally said to be. It is especially the case of Fountain, a work by Marcel Duchamp, to which the Whole of the libertarian liberal system is nevertheless deeply connected, a system that can be spotted when sociocriti- cism —which precisely has the task to spot it— calls on historical materialism and sociopsychoanalysis.