The imaginary and the process of artistic creation

Authors

  • Lucrecia Corbella Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro/UERJ

Abstract

Abstract: This article aims to analyze the notion of imaginary of the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and the process of artistic creation of the playwright Luigi Pirandello. From the similarities between The Imaginary, a text by Sartre, and So it is (if it looks), a play by Pirandello, it is possible to conceive the imaginary as a source of artistic creation. The imaginary, for Sartre, as well as being a fundamental determination of a person, is a psychic function that structures the consciousness. What Pirandello does when he writes a play is an invitation, through an imaginary object, to become unreal, distancing themselves from the real world. The art is produced by a enchantment that seeks to invent a world with other meanings enabling new existential choices.

Keywords: Sartre; Pirandello; Imaginary; Artistic Creation; Theater.

Author Biography

Lucrecia Corbella, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro/UERJ

Doutoranda em Psicologia Social do Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia Social/PPGPS da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro/UERJ. Bolsista CAPES

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Published

2012-12-12

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 9 (2012): O que faz a arte?

Section

Artigos