Sanatçının Kendine Yolculuğu Sanat ve Edebiyat Üzerine Psikanalitik Denemeler by Nilüfer Erdem Güngörmüş

Psychoanalytic treatment is based on the idea that the boundaries separating healthy and pathological states are not as sharp as is thought, and that a transition from one to the other is possible. As the person undergoing analysis will realize, self-knowledge and understanding the depths of one's own psyche are inextricably linked. It could be said that artists are among the luckiest individuals of our time, because they have a safe and very rich potential place to entrust their own darkness: the realm where artistic creation is realized.

Many artists are already aware of this: they know that a transformation takes place within themselves while creating their works, and through their art they delve into their own darkness, complete an inner journey, and tell us how they find and extract the truth from their own depths.

“Just as in psychoanalytic treatment, the singularity and uniqueness of individual processes are essential in artistic creativity. These are the works I have written at different times, from Hermann Melville to Henry Bauchau, from Sevim Burak to Selma Gürbüz, from Alvin Lucier to Mehmed Siyah These essays, focusing on the works of various painters, directors, composers, and writers, aim to bring forth such unique examples arising from the intersection of artistic creativity and psychoanalytic thought.