Abstract

SALES, Camila Ferreira  and  ROCHA, Guilherme Massara. Repetition and contingency in the psychoanalytical clinic and in the art of performance. Psicol. clin. [online]. 2019, vol.31, n.1, pp.189-202. ISSN 0103-5665.  https://doi.org/10.33208/PC1980-5438v0031n01A09.

Both Freud and Lacan have left a peculiar legacy concerning the interface between psychoanalysis and art: the use of aesthetic material as a resource for thinking the clinic. Subjectivation processes in the psychoanalytical clinic imply the pulsion to traverse the repetition as a significant. Lacan names Tyche (τύχη) the return of the real that bears on the repetition of signs (automaton). In an analogous way, in art - especially contemporary art - there is a way of presenting themes not bound by the category of meaning, but open to the universe of affections and pulsions. One can think the aesthetic object, in this sense, as a pulsional one. By taking some examples from the work of Marina Abramovic, a Serbian artist who has been described as the grandmother of performance art, we will see how these processes connect.

Keywords : psychoanalysis; repetition; performance art; contingency.

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