Bacon between mirrors: : the image in enjoyment in art

• Autor(a) principal: Greco, Musso
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Artefilosofia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufop.br/raf/article/view/962
• topic: real; art; semblance; imagedistortion; real; arte; aparência; distorção da imagem

Knowing that the work of Art can teach to Psychoanalysis in what way the Unconscious today refers to the body, we can use it as a clinical real strand to work the question of the distorted image of the body in the era of new symptoms. Lacan introduced the Real as the dimension that allows to have together the three instances of the Borromean knot, Real, Symbolic and Imaginary. We chose as the guide of this study an artist who reinvents the body through the destruction of the ideal body image, Francis Bacon, which seems to understand the condition of the contemporary subject, for whom the crisis of the symbolic Other makes it problematic to mediate, in a humanized and particular way, the relation between enjoyment and the images that he experiences in his own body. The weakening of symbolic mediation continually short circuits in the body the specular network of the Imaginary and the libidinal Real of the drive, which appears in Bacon's paintings in the form of a distortion.