Resumos
The article aims to incite reflections on the function of fantasy in psychoanalysis based on Lacan's contact with the work of the artist René Magritte, and specifically with the painting "La condition humaine" (1933). It analyzes some aspects of the functioning of fantasy as the subject's reality and, above all, as the "human condition" related to an avoidance of contact with "the window to the real," in relation to the lack of ultimate object for drive satisfaction, to the inconsistency of the Other and to fundamental helplessness. To this end, the dilemmas of the subjective relation with the object a and with das Ding are examined, investigating the ambiguous functioning of fantasy and its possible understanding as a work of art for the subject's internal use. Finally, a resonance is proposed between the understanding of art in Magritte's work and the direction of treatment as proposed by Lacan.
Key words:
Magritte; psychoanalysis; fantasy; real