نوع مقاله : مقاله مروری
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Background: The relationship between psychoanalysis and art has a long and intricate history, originating with Freud’s writings on artists and evolving through a complex trajectory. Despite this, psychoanalytic theories of art remain fragmented, calling for a more systematic historical and conceptual synthesis.
Aim: This study aims to review and critically analyze the developmental trajectory of psychoanalytic perspectives on art and the creative process.
Method: A narrative review was conducted, integrating data from 97 articles and books retrieved from major databases (Web Pep, Web of Science, Scopus, ScienceDirect, ProQuest, Google Scholar, Google Books, ResearchGate, PubMed, JSTOR, Noormags, and SID), covering 1900 to July 2025. The initial search identified 2,405 records. After screening, 594 articles were selected for title/abstract review, and 380 full texts were examined in detail. Applying inclusion/exclusion criteria, 69 articles and 28 books were ultimately included.
Results: The findings of this review can be organized into three major categories: 1- A three-branch, criterion-based classification of the evolution of psychoanalytic thought on art. 2- A four-stage model explaining the creative process from a postmodern psychoanalytic perspective, illustrating how the elements of artistic creation correspond to mechanisms of psychic transformation in analysis. 3- A comparative map outlining the structural and functional components of artistic creation in parallel with analogous processes in psychoanalysis, highlighting their potential impact on the analytic process.
Conclusions: The study proposes an intersubjective, field (post-Bionian) model of the creative process: evocative objects activate the raw unconscious material within the “field” of the artist’s psychic interactions. This stirred unconscious, driven by the wish to re-experience a transformative object and engaged with consciousness, material, and inner/outer factors, gives rise to the “artistic third,” a concept inspired by the “analytic third,” which is both co-created and autonomous. The artistic third enables the capacity to “bear witness,” facilitating meaning-making and the integration of ruptures in the psyche’s narrative through metaphor and symbolization. Thus, art is not the product of a singular self but the emergent outcome of a dynamic creative field.
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