Abstract

MALZYNER, Mirian. Psychoanalyst’s atelier: the search for meaning and the need for expression. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2024, vol.46, n.77, pp.127-135.  Epub Sep 20, 2024. ISSN 0101-3106.  https://doi.org/10.5935/0101-3106.v46n77.19.

The text highlights the importance of forms of artistic expression for understanding human existence and try to think of the analyst’s office as an atelier, a place for exchanging, learning and experimenting with languages.

The author refers a statement by Winnicott that points to the paradoxical conflict between the need to communicate and the equal need to preserve the nuclei of loneliness and non-communication. It brings aspects of the life and work of the painter Mark Rothko, with regard to the subtleties involved in the interplay between revealing oneself and placing oneself in vulnerability.

Keywords : psychoanalysis and art; artistic language; aesthetics; communication and non-communication; nucleus of solitude.

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