Continuidades descontinuadas: reflexões sobre o encontro intersubjetivo com a Arte

Abstract

With the dissertation we aim to reflect upon the enigmatic intersubjective encounter between observer and work of art. This encounter starts an endless journey in which the experience of art keeps changing also remaining the same at its core that allows the continuity of art through the ever-present. But even if we agree that one of the most important truths about art lie on this human experience, we still often try to direct it to other competencies in order to prove it right, which tends to diminish the relevance of such an encounter. With this in mind, we ll carefully apply some concepts of psychoanalysis, mainly in the field of affective intensities related to pre-verbal language (as the Uncanny), articulating its relation to art as aesthetic experience. The never ending process of completeness puts the relationship between observer and work in perpetual search for an end that never comes. This paradox, far from being something that stops us, is what really puts us on the move, in search for new significations for what we don t know. And writing about art, in this sense, is part of this movement towards the unknown, is what allows us to create from its shadows still keeping its mystery alive