Psychoanalysis and Art (original) (raw)

In Plato’s Republic, when Socrates was trying to explain that what painters do, He said that to Glaukon ‘Take a mirror and hold it everywhere. Suddenly you made the sun, the stars, the world, self, the house, plants, all living entities’ Is it really so easy for the artist to reflect the world and the human? The purpose of art is clear despite all its undefinitions. Art wants to understand and explain human being. Because the greatest enigma about human life has always been about itself. It is still another matter that art can fulfill this function. For example, at the point of time killing, why is reading books a much more intellectual action than watching television? Both are fictional, created. However, there are differences between the pleasure a person receives while reading and watching TV. The book is suitable for my communication. It triggers the imagination because there is no visuality. As long as Oguz Atay's doesn't give details about novel’s protagonist, I can describe it in my head. But television gives me a ready product and prevents me from dreaming. Here is the impressive, the most important feature of art is that the reader / viewer can dream. We can come under the influence of the work as we can imagine. Because, as Freud argues, adults make daydreams to satisfy their desires. In this way, the artist reflects the daydreams into his work with free creativity. Freud's psychoanalytic theory is undoubtedly one of the greatest turning points of the 20th century. Of course, its effect has not only survived the 20th century, but it has spread to every aspect of academic life and daily life in the 21st century. In this context, I will consider how Freud deals with art and especially creativity through psychoanalysis.