This article proposes a discussion of the creative process in Camille Claudel (1864-1943) and the complex interaction between her art work and time. First, the author stresses the particular sensibility of the artist for time. Second, eight art pieces are presented and analyzed in their specific bond to time.
Archives par mot-clé : Creativity
Thomas Gaon : video games, the future of an illusion
The technology of the virtual produces an area of illusion that is more and more captivating and engaging for adolescents faced with a reality that is sometimes experienced with anxiety. Video games are the royal road into this parallel domain, particularly through its implications for creativity, sublimation and identity. They play out the fantasy in an interactive form that combines activity and passivity. In adolescence, the incarnation of the heroes of video games based on the infantile heroic identification in its narcissistic dimension (ideal ego) would help to compensate for the loss of parental objects. But, the positive and subjectivating contribution of virtual identity depends on the permeability of this ludic sphere. The richness of the exchange between internal and external realities within this transitional area hinges on the real and reflexive presence of the other, so that the circuit of instances in play can be operative.
Julien Denans, Mohammed Ham : adolescence, solitude and the social bond. metapsychological and clinical perspectives
The authors’aim, starting from the speech of suffering from which problems of loneliness emerge, is to repatriate this notion into the metapsychological frame of reference, in order to raise it to the dignity of concept and to rid themselves of any purely phenomenological or interactionist vision. The conceptualization of loneliness then passes by the Freudian reference to Hilflosigkeit, psychical helplessness and ontological discontinuity which opens up a dimension of a bond that is other than fusional, i.e., a bond which we would describe as a linguistic link, following J. Lacan. D. W. Winnicott proposes a « capacity to be alone », loneliness which supports psychic installation of the other. It is related to the potential space where the creative way of life of the individual appears. This epistemology then serves as a pretext to question our practice and the tranferential stakes of the clinical encounter. Isn’t this precisely affirmed as the dynamic and creative space to be alone in the presence of the Other ? This prospect should enable us more largely to question the springs of the social bond of which the private clinic of adolescence is an emblematic figure.
Adolescence, 2008, T. 26, n°3, pp. 723-739.
Philippe Gutton : some remarks on bohemianism
Let us associate the « artist’s life » (1880) and the adolescent’s life. Note the creativity, the esthetic ideal, the element of risk and the ephemeral nature of both. Some remarks inspired by the exhibit at the Paris’ Grand Palais entitled « Bohèmes ».
Adolescence, 2013, T. 31, n°3, pp. 753-756.