MANIFESTATIONS OF SEXUALITY IN THE ARTS aesthetic, ethical and political effects and consequences 2nd Cycle of Conferences – 2021/202 integrated in Bruno Schiappa’s postdoctoral research
1 – The relationship between psychoanalysis and art has been present since its birth, although it has not always been a peaceful or understandable relationship, with related areas dedicated to thinking about art. In the Wednesday meetings, at Freud’s house, these relationships began to be built and there, too, they were not without controversy. Controversy was after all the scandal that psychoanalysis brought by placing the unconscious at the center of human mental life and redefining the role of sexuality in our inner world. After all, what does psychoanalysis have to say about art?
2 – Based on the work of New Zealand-French psychoanalyst Joyce McDougall (1920-2011), an approach will be made in which the relationships of the internal world, of unconscious forces, in the relationships of internal representations and human development itself will be explored and the confrontation with the theatrical phenomenon. Two works by McDougall will be invoked: Theater of the Mind: Illusion and Truth on the Psychoanalytical Stage (1982), Theater of the Body: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic Illness (1989). What relationships can we establish between an understanding of the psyche as a stage, as McDougall describes it, and the theatrical stage itself? Will we find the same instances, the same erotic or tanatic forces? Will there be obedience to the same law of desire?
3 – We will return to Freud to find, in the construction of fundamental moments of psychoanalysis, elements linked to theatricality, the Oedipus complex or the notion of internal conflict. Conceptualizations linked to the construction of desire and the pathological. In Aristotle, pathos and logos would be theatrical elements always present in the construction of tragedy. To what extent the pathological also emerges in the relationship with art and in particular with theatre.
Short Bio note: Rui Cintra was born in Almada, took the dramaturgy course at IFICT and took theater classes with Rogério de Carvalho. He graduated in Philosophy at FCSH, having been a journalist and theater critic at the newspaper O Independente. At the turn of the millennium, he graduated in Psychology at ISPA, where he also did a Masters degree, and holds a postgraduate degree in Psychosomatics and in Psychiatry and Mental Health at UCP. He is currently a Clinical Psychologist with clinical practice in Lisbon, having specialized as a couple and family psychoanalytic psychotherapist trained by Poiesis (where he is a trainer) and as a relational psychoanalytic psychotherapist by PsiRelacional. He has written about art and psychoanalysis and has been a lecture.
Date: December 15th | Time: 3/5 pm
Place: Teatro da Trindade/Inatel
Curatorship and moderation: Bruno Schiappa (CET – Ulisboa; CREPAL – Sorbonne Nouvelle).
Speaker: Rui Cintra Supervision: Fernando Guerreiro and Maria João Brilhante
