Art is my Concern!

Psychoanalyst and writer Gérard Wajcman talks to members of the Association de la Cause Freudienne, about 6 works on display in the exhibitions Lacan, l’exposition and André Masson. Il n’y a pas de monde achevé. From Salvador Dalí and his ‘paranoid critical method’ to Marcel Duchamp and his readymades, from La dépossession by Latifa Echakhch to the tin of sardines in Julien Bismuth’s Petit Jean, from the Enfants des iles to the sign-mask for André Masson’s L’Origine du monde, let us not forget what Lacan told us: ‘remember with Freud that in his subject the artist always precedes the psychoanalyst’. The conversation will aim to draw lessons. Art and works of art concern anyone who is open to them. Art is of concern to psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts, as Lacan continually emphasised throughout his teaching, making it a tool not only for interpretation but also of subversion.