Psychoanalysis and art: artistic representations in patients' dreams.
The authors explore the psychic passages that were opened up within a patient, Ada, thanks to her contact with two works of art, Signorelli's frescoes in Orvieto and Picasso's painting La Nageuse--their themes, formal structures, and the conventions governing their creation. A work of art can be considered as a kind of window that allows one to look upon the imaginary world created by the artist. One can peer out of this window from the other side, permitting a look at the viewer (the patient), who is caught in a web of associations that are yet to be explored.
Pazzagli
Adolfo
A
University of Florence, Italy.
Rossi Monti
Mario
M
D000328:Adult; D001154:Art; D001244:Association; D003405:Creativity; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004325:Dreams; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D007092:Imagination; D010151:Paintings; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D014167:Transference, Psychology