Abstract
The academic debate about the image of art makes evident its complex substance. This work, which is based upon a thesis published in 2022, contributes to recent discussions, using the theoretical perspectives found in Semiotics and Psychoanalysis in order to treat the image as a phenomenon immersed into relations of production and communication; an interface of exchange between subjects/perceptive bodies; movement that becomes presence in different spatiotemporal contexts. An interdisciplinary approach that aims to reconcile academic knowledge and artistic practices is privileged, exploring interactions as non-linear, inferential and meaning-generating. The present work also suggests the deepening of theoretical links, highlighting possible paths for an epistemology of the image that can be compatible with artistic procedures and with the idea of authorship, which finds in the critique of creation processes the theoretical support to be treated as a path of psychic constitution and organization. For this purpose, the idea of symbol as a linguistic and imagetic entity is highlighted as a key element that connects propositions of psychoanalysis – mainly with Freud as well as several post-Freudian authors – and Peircean semiotics; from the concepts that surrounds the idea of symbol emerges a broad understanding towards the significant function exercised by subjects and images.
Presenters
Paula MartinelliStudent, PhD, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP) and University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Creation Processes, Psychoanalysis, Semiotics
