Juan David Nasio. Arte y psicoanálisis. Buenos Aires: Paidós, 2015, 312 páginas

Abstract

The relationship between art and psychoanalysis dates back to the very beginnings of the discipline created by Sigmund Freud. Freud’s fondness for Greek mythology, for authors such as Dostoevsky, Goethe, Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Nietzsche, as well as his references to Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, are well known; in short, his continual citations of various authors and artistic expressions have contributed, as part of his theoretical argumentation, to the development of his theory of the human psyche. In this vein, other important psychoanalysts such as Ferenczi, Abraham, Segal, Kris, and Lacan further deepened the art-psychoanalysis relationship. In this context, Juan David Nasio brings together and adapts a series of essays, lectures, and presentations to give shape to Art and Psychoanalysis, in a new collaboration with the “Psicología Profunda” collection from Editorial Paidós. The renowned psychoanalyst and disciple of Lacan—who invited him to participate in his seminar in 1979—places at the center of attention the concept of “sublimation” [Sublimierung], forged by Freud, and proposes an original definition stemming from his own research.