Apreciação e sublimação: ensaio sobre arte e psicanálise

Abstract

Which phenomenon is related to the experience that occurs between spectator and work of art? This is the question that will outline the following hypothesis: sublimation makes this experience possible by moving the spectator and eliciting one s desire to create. The idea that the work of art puts the spectator in an unsettled state that demands meaning will be explained by Freud s experience with Moses s statue, André Green s experience with the London Cartoon and Ada Morgenstern s experience with Perseus and Medusa. These authors will lead the readers into thinking sublimation as being closely related to artistic production. Moreover, this concept will be analyzed based on the psychoanalytical theory, going from Freud to other authors such as Laplanche, Loewald and Lacan, who also contributed to the development of the subject. The appreciation of Picasso s Guernica will be used in order to articulate appreciation and sublimation. This painting was responsible for a great psychic mobilization, which inspired reflection and an investigation about this state and its meanings. As an active part of the process, the writer s/spectator s associations will guide the research. In the moment the spectator is touched or surprised by the work of art, one s network of meanings is struck and one seeks significance to the cause of this surprise. The work of art, therefore, provokes ones desire to create