Abstract

CUNHA, BEATRIZ WETZEL DA  and  RATTO, CLEBER GIBBON. STUDIES ON THE CREATIVE PROCESS – A LOOK AT FRIDA KAHLO. Rev. Comunic [online]. 2016, vol.23, n.2, pp.145-165. ISSN 2238-121X.  https://doi.org/10.15600/2238-121X/comunicacoes.23n2p145-165.

This paper intends to study the suffering and the creative process through a gaze on life and work of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. It consists in a predominantly qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study case involving literature review, theoretical research and a hermeneutic exercise on fragments of the artist’s life/work. Moving toward Donald Winnicott’s psychoanalytical concepts, it is exerted the separation of work of art and creative living, enhancing the possibilities for integration and life through and beyond the work. Thus, this paper puts forward the proposal of a concrete psychology, concerned with the human events from an existential perspective, i.e., the life happening in the scene, in relations with the environment and with the other. This paper unravels possibilities for thinking creative living even throughout extreme situations, in a psychology of existence where finitude, solitude, the limits of human freedom and the precariousness of life sense are the raw material to existence itself. Revealing that Frida’s main contribution is not in a Frida’s work of art, but, most of all, in a Frida’s-process.

Keywords : PSYCHOLOGY; WORK OF ART; CREATIVE LIVING; FRIDA KAHLO; D. WINNICOTT.

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