The interlacing of art with psychoanalysis

Abstract

Working on the relations between literature and psychoanalysis today demands from the critic not only knowledge of the two areas, but also enough flexibility to avoid confusing the
objectives of the two fields and to establish relations not only in one of the two perspectives but in the search for a larger understanding of the human being, the common objective shared by all of the humanities. However, the two areas differ in the object studied and in the strategy adopted by the researcher, as will be detailed in the text that follows. The arts having the power to suspend the subject, contribute to knowledge not because they are admired, but, according to the Proustian narrator, because they envelop men in culture, offering them another vision of the world or different perceptions of certain situations. Psychoanalysis, by undoing prejudices and the established, demands from the analyzed a narrative that will allow for the reconstitution of a singular story. In conclusion, we inquire whether writing, painting, sculpting or inventing a melody substitute analysis.