We resist, what end does it serve? Can psychoanalysis turn back to itself in face of the enigma of other fields? The article addresses the concept of resistance - in its different modalities found in Freud's work and in its reconsideration by Derrida - as an mediator for the approximation between psychoanalysis and the experience of art. Three testimonies by artists and critics expose some points where the analytical interpretation may be an insufficient receptor for the achievements of art, specially in its contemporaneous version. However, the author concludes with the renewal of important conceptual perspectives of psychoanalysis itself, that would take its knowledge to a convergence with the art's statement, according to artists and critics, and the resulting works.
Contemporaneous art; resistance; wisdom of artist; creation of reality