A Clinical Study of Frida Kahlo’s Creative Process
Scotto di Vettimo, Delphine
A Clinical Study of Frida Kahlo’s Creative Process - 2015.
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This paper focuses on the decisive step in Frida Kahlo’s creative process: that of potential motherhood thrown into question by abortion. From a clinical, psychopathological, and psychoanalytic perspective, the exploration of this artist’s universe is developed in the light of the 1932 painting entitled Henry Ford Hospital, which is galvanized both by the radical nature of this traumatic experience and by the sublimatory process of mourning for “the Thing” through creation, in the Lacanian sense. The Freudian approach provides an exemplary way to understand art, in the eyes of psychoanalysis, as an original way of seeking and obtaining satisfaction at any cost, but in remaining aware of the basic dissatisfaction that persists in the psyche, and thus along the lines of a symptom. Here the examination of the dialectic between creative process and trauma on one hand, creative process and sublimation on the other, allows us to grasp, in a nascent stage, a connection between the real and the symbolic; and beyond this, the realization of new modes of pictorial creation.
A Clinical Study of Frida Kahlo’s Creative Process - 2015.
41
This paper focuses on the decisive step in Frida Kahlo’s creative process: that of potential motherhood thrown into question by abortion. From a clinical, psychopathological, and psychoanalytic perspective, the exploration of this artist’s universe is developed in the light of the 1932 painting entitled Henry Ford Hospital, which is galvanized both by the radical nature of this traumatic experience and by the sublimatory process of mourning for “the Thing” through creation, in the Lacanian sense. The Freudian approach provides an exemplary way to understand art, in the eyes of psychoanalysis, as an original way of seeking and obtaining satisfaction at any cost, but in remaining aware of the basic dissatisfaction that persists in the psyche, and thus along the lines of a symptom. Here the examination of the dialectic between creative process and trauma on one hand, creative process and sublimation on the other, allows us to grasp, in a nascent stage, a connection between the real and the symbolic; and beyond this, the realization of new modes of pictorial creation.
Réseaux sociaux