title: Dream Images and Creation.
abstract: This article links contemporary psychoanalytic theories of the dream, especially Bion's, with the work of the American video artist Bill Viola, who is deeply influenced by altered states of consciousness and produces images of dreamlike quality. We discuss the oneiric and infantile roots of creativity and artistic inspiration, finally taking Viola's monumental artwork The Passing (1991) as paradigmatic of the artist's aesthetic and philosophical elaboration of the relationship between life and death.
authors.affiliation: 3 allée Jean Giraudoux, 78420 Carrières sur seine, France. E-mail: celine.masson@free.fr.
authors.forename: Céline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Masson
authors.forename: Silke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schauder
authors.forename: Simone Korff
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Sausse
mesh_terms: D003405:Creativity; D004325:Dreams / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory