Paranoia as psychiatry, is a mental disorder characterized by persecutory delusions or grandeur. For Salvador Dali, however, was a creative process to deepen the opaque realities the subconscious. He called it "paranoiac-critical method" and reflected in 1937 with the completion of an oil painting Metamorphosis of Narcissus, who accompanied a poem, Myth of Narcissus, which published the same year in Paris, Éditions Surréalistes.
"For the first time a picture and a surrealist poem objectively involve the coherent interpretation of a theme developed irrational," explained the artist on this year to hybridize the literature with painting. "The paranoia was described as a mental illness, but Dali was an excellent chance it constructively," says art historian Joan M. Minguet in the trial The enigma of the (in) visible Also included in the publication. "The paranoid going to be seen as an enlightened and also as an illuminating, revealing a world of its own, singular, but consistent with itself."
David Lomas is the author of the second of the trials included in the publication, On the Dalí narcissism: an introduction. The Australian specialist recalls how the artist, enthusiast of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud was able to meet in London in 1938 through the mediation of Stefan Zweig. Carried the Metamorphosis of Narcissus, in an attempt to impress the teacher with a topic that addressed a central issue in the psychoanalytic definition of subjectivity. "But there was a major point of disagreement: Freud believed that art and literature, like the myth innocently revealed the secrets of human nature, as detailed elucidation was the task of psychoanalysis, "he writes Lomas." It is likely that Freud was looking at the art while Dalí classical allowed to inquire into the functioning of the unconscious, conscious only surfaced in a surrealistic painting, Dalí considered assertion that the death certificate of Surrealism 'as a doctrine, as a sect, as ism.
Source: El País
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