Authors: Alina MAPN da Silva, Luiz Carlos Miller Paiva Nogueira da Silva, Anita L R Saldanha, Ana Paula Pantoja Margeotto, André Luis Valera Gasparoto, Elisa Rinaldi Nunes, Renato Cesar da Silva Oliveira, Tania Leme da Rocha Martinez.
The purpose of this paper is to reinvigorate psychoanalytic theory through the development of a close relationship with biology in general and with cognitive neuroscience in particular. It follows that most mental life takes place on the unconscious plane, and can become conscious only as sensory perceptions, such as words and images. The use the term chronic for patients is due to their lifelong artistic manifestations that can be interpreted by Integrative psychoanalysis. At the same time patients may have chronic diseases and thus be psychologically improved by integrative psychoanalysis interpretations. There are examples in art, especially in painting, that illustrate the main idea. Joan Miró, one of the great masters of twentieth-century painting, was certainly intelligent, but some of his paintings, such as, for example, "Flame in Space" and "Naked Woman", represent a very regressive state, even seeming that there was no use of the prefrontal lobe, indispensable for the process of formalization: if the development of this brain area is interrupted, a child will not be able to perform a complete drawing. The same fact seems to have occurred with the Rio de Janeiro painter Frank Schefer, who used only nuances of color, and with the São Paulo painter Henry Victor, who portrayed only children's themes. In the twentieth century, from Cézanne to Mondrian, plastic artists turned to the structuring of composition and, in a formalist stylistic approach, reproposed the organization of syntactic elements of the manifestations of the Neolithic cultural universe. The creative work not only enlarges the universe but also enriches and expands man inwardly. If we had, in addition to psychological tests, psychiatric examinations of these artists, we would be able to deepen our knowledge of the causes of their works.
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