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Accidents, Evocative Objects and Art: Meanderings of the Mind in the Work of Christopher Bollas and Gabriel Orozco
Author(s) -
Marks Lesley
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of applied psychoanalytic studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.314
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1556-9187
pISSN - 1742-3341
DOI - 10.1002/aps.1437
Subject(s) - psychoanalytic theory , parallels , transformative learning , psychoanalysis , sociology , aesthetics , art , visual arts , psychology , pedagogy , mechanical engineering , engineering
This study compares Christopher Bollas's theory of thinking and the creative process, both within and outside of the psychoanalytic encounter, with the work of artist and sculptor Gabriel Orozco. It demonstrates the parallels between the psychoanalytic quest for the true self and the artistic endeavor to create art that offers a potentially transformative experience. Orozco's art and Bollas's psychoanalytic theories are inter‐animating and mutually reinforcing, giving a discursive and visual form to ideas concerned with the fully‐lived life and the search for personal truth. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.