on André Alves and Lucas Liedke
Course format: One open class + three live sessions.
The open class will be held live on October 13th on the float vibes YouTube channel (@floatvibes). The episode will be available on the Vibes em Análise podcast on October 15th on Spotify.
The remaining classes will take place live on November 04th, 11th, and 18th on the MAM's online course platform.
DatesOctober 13, November 04, 11 and 18, 2026
Wednesdays*
Timetable: from 19h to 21h
Duration: 4 meetings
Public: interested parties in general
InvestmentR$ 480,00 + fees
*The open class will exceptionally take place on Tuesday, October 13th.
Online course
Live, via video conferencing platform
Recorded classes available for a limited time only
Includes certificate at the end
For Libras interpreter, request by email cursos@mam.org.br with 7 business days' notice.
Every day we face a paradox: we have never had so much access to creative and highly sensory expressions, while at the same time we have never been so saturated with stimuli and noise, and yet we experience a feeling of emptiness. There is an abundance of stimuli, but a lack of meaning.
Art has always been a field for processing human suffering, and today it finds itself strained by new forms of unease: hyperconnectivity, algorithmic logic, the continuous performance of the self, and the difficulty of sustaining profound experiences. But how to maintain sanity in a time that has no time for processing?
This course proposes to investigate the numerous relationships between art and mental health throughout history and in the present day, analyzing different artistic manifestations as devices for projection, displacement, and subjective transformation, based on an interplay between psychoanalysis, philosophy, and new theories of culture.
Agenda
Open class
- Art as a therapeutic tool: creating, contemplating, traversing, and destabilizing.
- Aesthetic experience and the radical encounter with lack.
- Sublime expressions of the unconscious
Lesson 2 – Depression and the emptiness of meaning
- The current state of the culture industry and its effects on our subjectivity.
- Facing the desert of reality
- Emptiness in excess as a contemporary experience.
Lesson 3 – Anxiety, acceleration, and the culture of attention deficit
- The attention economy: how to navigate the proliferation of so much noise?
- The effects of fragmented contemplation and reflection.
- Chronic entertainment and cognitive-sensory recession
Lesson 4 – Identity, performativity, and life chronically online
- Narcissistic culture and the protagonism syndrome
- The schism of the eye, the gaze, and the object.
- The autofictional drive and the commodified self.
André Alves
Lucas Liedke
MAM friend There's a 20% discount. Be part!
Students, teachers and retirees have a 10% discount
Doubts:
cursos@mam.org.br
WhatsApp: 11 99774 3987
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credits
Image: float vibes
