art and psychoanalysis

on Flavia Corpas

Dates: April 28, May 5, 12 and 26, June 2, 9, 16 and 23, 2026
Tuesdays
Hour: 19h to 21h
Duration: 8 meetings
Audience: general interested parties
Investment: R $ 640,00

Online course
Live, via video conferencing platform
Recorded classes available for a limited time only
Includes certificate at the end

From Sophocles to Salvador Dalí and Marguerite Duras, including Leonardo da Vinci, Francesca Woodman and Cindy Sherman, this course investigates the complex relationship between Art and Psychoanalysis, exploring texts and concepts that have marked both fields to this day.

Based on Freud's writings, we will analyze how he did not limit himself to using art as an illustration of his clinical discoveries, but took artists and their works as fundamental interlocutors — a point also highlighted by Jacques Lacan.

Lacan, in turn, proposes that interpretation in psychoanalysis should function like a ready-made by Marcel Duchamp, avoiding reinforcing the symptom through meaning and shifting interpretation to the limits of language and representation — that which, in psychoanalysis, is called the real, the impossible to symbolize.

Neither Freud nor Lacan sought to formulate a psychoanalytic aesthetic. What interests them is the knowledge specific to each artist — a knowledge that he does not necessarily recognize, but which manifests itself in creation.

Agenda

Class 1 – Art and Psychoanalysis: a field of tension

• Presentation of the course and its methodology
• What is Psychoanalysis? What is Art?

Class 2 – Proceedings of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society

• Art and Psychoanalysis: first articulations
• Life and work of an artist

Class 3 – Psychopathic Characters on Stage

• The birth of Psychoanalysis
• The psychoanalytic method and Art
• The spectator and the work

Class 4 – Gradiva

• Art and fantasy
• Psychoanalysis and literature
• The artist's knowledge

Class 5 – The poet and fantasizing

• Art and children
• Psychoanalysis and poetry
• Art and the unconscious

Class 6 – A childhood memory of Leonardo da Vinci

• Sublimation
• Schapiro and Lacan

Class 7 – Moses by Michelangelo

• Psychoanalysis and Art History
• Read a work

Class 8 – Das Unheimliche

• Art and Aesthetics
• The work of Francesca Woodman

Flavia Corpas

Flavia Corpas is a psychoanalyst working in private practice and an independent curator of visual arts. She holds a postdoctoral degree in Literary Science from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC/RJ), and was a professor on the Specialization Course in Cultural Accessibility at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She organized the catalogue raisonné of Arthur Bispo do Rosario and other publications about the artist. She curated the exhibitions "Walter Firmo: A Look at Bispo de Rosario," "Almost Here" by Daniel Senise, "Reflectives" by Iran do Espírito Santo, and "Pilotis" by Katia Wille. She directed the documentaries "Cartographies of Creation," "Art, Culture and Accessibility," and "Walter Firmo: A Look at Bispo de Rosario."

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credits

Image: Mira Schendel, Untitled, 1984. MAM São Paulo Collection.