Interdisciplinary Practice - Psychology of the Arts, Culture and Media - Art and Psychoanalysis

I went to a lecture to support my idea for this project and get more knowledge of the subject area.

Sigmund Freud

Academic Psychologist - critically at wrong things

Psychoanalysts are looking with reeling brain at the right things

Encompassing theory - Psychoanalysis disliked by feminists by Freud's character and views.

'Documentry on Sigmund Freud'

Unconsious - bury down thoughs

Topography - Iceberg analogy

Personality

EGO + SUPER EGO + ID

The Psyche

ID

Primal Desires

Basic Nature

Child

EGO Reason and Self controll

Your practical

Grown up self

SUPEREGO

The quest of perfection

Your philosophical and spiritual ideals

Unconcious motivation

Psychosexual development

- Emphasised the importance of the first five years of life

- Pre-Genital Phase

Oedipus Complex

Genetics and Determinism

Introspection - Interpretation

The pleasure principle: Human Psychology is governed by a tendency to seek pleasure and avoid pain

Defence mechanisms

ART

Freud has influence upon thinking in the 20th and 21st centuries

His thoughts can be observes art, unema

Why an artist creates

- Art can be healing and therapeutic: a mean to repair the self

- Destablilising through the repetition of trauma as a source for creatice inspiration (Childhood)

Tracy Emin

Psychoanalysis source of inspirations for artist (directly/ indirectly)

Art Viewed symbolism to dreams

Narrative / interpret

Freud - Interpretation of dreams

Falic Symbols

Jake and Dinos Chapman - 'Little Death Machine (Castrated)' (1993)

The title of the artwork might influence what you might think it means

Dreams and art manifest of desire - Five stages of personality

Rona Pondick- 'Teeth' Sculpture Series

Imposing someone elses thoughts - might not be the one who creates

Uncanny

Defence mechanism

The pleasure Principle

Freud & Leonardo Da Vinci

Surrealism and Psychoanalysis Salvador Dali

Dopelganger

Max Ernst and Rene Magritte

Louise Bourgeois - 'Femme Maison'

Woman's position in the houshold

'No exit'

Associations with artwork - understanding

Rachel Whitereid

Tracey Emin

Hans Belmer - The Feitsh Object

Andy Warhol - The Death Drive

Basquiat

Freaudian Theory is Extremely controversial

Falsifiability

Controversial and rejection has stimulated new approaches

subjective

one-one correspondence

Between graphic symbol and its meaning?

Is meaning socially and culturally constructed?

Not just located within our individual psyche

Koftman cited BEST (2005)

Fancis Bacon, 1944

-Primacy of ID, both individually and culturally

-Oral fixation

-Death drive (EROS) - 'Unmistakable odour of death'

-Determinism

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery - Francis Bacon