Its “fetal features” (Zizek...

Its “fetal features” (Zizek, 52) could suggest that the figure is once more being reborn, after having left an inauthentic life behind. According to Heidegger, “to undergo an experience . means that this something befalls us, strikes us, overwhelms us, and transforms us . the experience is not of our own making . we endure it, suffer it, receive it as it strikes us, and submit to it” (Kenny, 100).

It is no secret that Edvard Munch took an interest in the esoteric world and possibly saw auras, which are “fine, ethereal radiation or emanations surrounding each and every human being” (Panchadasi, 4). In The Scream , a mild aura seems to combine both a sickly lemon yellow, indicating intellectual power, and a slate,