Gradiva and the nymph: epistemological affinities between art history and psychoanalytic theory
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This article is based on an epistemological approach between art history and psychoanalytic theory through the most outstanding representatives of both disciplines: Aby Warburg and Sigmund Freud. We have made this approximation by the hand of one of the formulas that both take to give body to his theory: the nymph and Gradiva. From this, we have proposed a study that has allowed us to understand the transversality of some concepts such as Warburg’s Nachleben and Freud’s Nachträglichkeit that inaugurate a new type of temporality, or Warburg’s energy investment and Freud’s condensation and displacement as mechanisms of dream elaboration to understand the processes of transformation and polarization of images.
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