(MIS)MEETINGS BETWEEN ART AND REAL

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on the role of art in the face of malaise in culture as an
attempt by the subject to symbolize his anguish in the face of the real that marks living with
the other. Thus, the proposal of this work is to start from the death drive as one of the central
concepts that Freud places in his work Civilization and its discontents and successively
advance to the concept of jouissance in Lacan, thinking about this modality of satisfaction as
a movement that annihilates desire and can ultimately lead to death. In this, art enters the
scene as a product of human subjectivity that can allow the subject the path of sublimation,
or, as elaborated by Lacan, the sinthome. Where, far from dealing with the conflict between
subject and culture, the encounter with art can enable a bordering of the real, a better
arrangement in the face of the impossibility of symbolizing what escapes the domain of
language.