- 著者
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古川 真宏
- 出版者
- 美学会
- 雑誌
- 美学 (ISSN:05200962)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.69, no.1, pp.85, 2018 (Released:2019-06-01)
Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) was once called “dream artist” on the art journal Kunstblatt
in 1903. In fact, dream was a subject of importance for him; he made several drawings,
and wrote a novel and some essays with the theme of dream, such as Traumland I
and II (1922), 2 bands of picture books consisting of lithographs capturing what he
saw in his dreams, and his famous novel Die andere Seite (1909). However, he came
to take a negative attitude toward dream after 1922, instead, his main interest seems
to have been shifted to memory. Taking notice of such a change of his position, this
paper investigates Kubin’s thinking of dream and memory, and how he applied his
understanding of them to his work. Also, I would compare his methodology and
psychoanalysis in terms of the concepts “secondary revision” and “screen memory” in
order to clarify the uniqueness of Kubin’s image composition. In conclusion, his change
of interest from dream to memory is not a break with his previous way of creation
but rather a continuous development, which was resulted from the internalization
of the mechanism of dream. In brief, he took advantage of the unconscious psychic
mechanism of memory to generate new visual images.