@article{ref1,
title="Magritte: the canvas, obverse of the absence of reflection of the maternal gaze",
journal="Revue Française de Psychanalyse",
year="2022",
author="Pirlot, G.",
volume="86",
number="4",
pages="775-786",
abstract="Magritte paints thought rather than what the eye sees, or else it is a matter of the eye that &quot;sees&quot; in the dream. For him, the gaze is an inner gaze constantly superimposing two realities, that of reflected psychic reality and that of non-reflected material reality. The author studies the relations between the themes of Magritte's paintings and the absence of reflection in the one-way gaze of a depressed mother who, after several attempts, committed suicide when he was 14 years old. The possibility of her disappearance became a mirage of the present in the past, as Bergson would say, to which his paintings bear witness, &quot;surrealizing&quot; fantasy in external reality. The art of naming his canvases, plunging the spectator into a state of perplexity that requires him to exercise an excessive degree of imagination, is interpreted as being linked to the place of a father with a strong sense of humour, thereby making it possible to &quot;create a third object&quot; of the attraction that the work has for the artist, which otherwise would be in danger of disappearing like in the one-way mirror of a suicidal mother. © Presses Universitaires de France.<p /><p>Language: fr</p>",
language="fr",
issn="0035-2942",
doi="10.3917/rfp.864.0775",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/rfp.864.0775"
}