The silence of the fruit is the seed of communion, of commotion and of indignation

Abstract

By means of a clinical experience and of the biography of the “Strange fruit” song, the author proposes to think about the aesthetic experience. This song, which conveys immense pain and makes prejudice and cruelty clear, was of vital importance in dampening the secular racial hatred against African Americans. The hard truth brings an aesthetic penetration, and it is considered by the author as a catastrophic change, a concept proposed by Bion and, according to Meg Harris Williams, considered by him to be the most aesthetic of his concepts.