El atravesamiento de la imagen en la mirada de van Gogh

Abstract

Between October 23rd, 1888 and December 23rd, that same year, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin shared in Arles, south of France, two months of intense discussions and creative work. On December 1st, Gauguin finished his friend’s portrait which he titled The painter of sunflowers, the vision attained by Vincent through that painting, would untie a storm amongst both painters that would conclude with the self retrench of van Gogh’s ear and his confinement in psychiatric facilities during his last two years of life. This paper inquires from a psychoanalytical perspective, what the other’s look reveals to Vincent and the way in which van Gogh’s view, crosses through the image restoring another sort of subjectivity, that while producing the emergency of a mortal design, literally transfigures him and hurl him into madness.