L’enjeu clinique de l’art-thérapie dans son approche de l’intime

Abstract

In this article, we will base on the assumption that intimate creative movement is related to the notion of “real”, as conceived by Lacan. Indeed, creative activity and psychoanalysis are two ways to approach the real and to do with the dark areas of the human being. In this approach of art as a creative movement, the question is to understand the relationship between what is in motion or what still being happen as a form, and the form itself as a product. We will try to understand what is the relationship between, on the one hand, what “pushes to get in shape and create”, the intimate movement of the artist, and the stability of what will be produced – the object “art” in its form. In this perspective, creative movement will be considered as being within the static form. Therefore, the mediation by art movement, based on the intimate, self-seeking is neither representation nor the pursuit of the subject intimacies. This self-discovery must go through an experience of emptiness, of nothing, of incompleteness that is the authentic condition for opening oneself to create. This is precisely one of the ethical issues of our clinical research. This one studies the approach of the intimate part of the subject, observed in creation – including in the context of art therapy.