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La Expresión Artística De Las Luchas Psicológicas En Las Obras De Frida Kahlo Y Salvador Dalí, Regina Juarez
La Expresión Artística De Las Luchas Psicológicas En Las Obras De Frida Kahlo Y Salvador Dalí, Regina Juarez
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This project aims to establish a connection between suffering expressed through art and Sigmund Freud's ideas on the ego, sexuality, and unconscious. This is explored through three of Freud's books On Narcissism, Sexuality and Psychology of Love and The Ego and the Id, and selected paintings by Frida Kahlo and Salvador Dalí. As Kahlo and Dalí's paintings show, suffering can be communicated through pictures and colors. Their complicated lives led them to create masterpieces that reflected a distressed ego, aggrieved sexuality, and unconscious suffering. In this essay, the visual content of La cama volando (Kahlo, 1932), Metamorfosis de Narciso (Dalí, …