PSYCHOANALYTIC ANALYSIS OF TWO FEMINIST ARTISTS AUTOBIOGRAPHIC ART WORKS

Abstract

The psychoanalytic analysis method aims to identify the artist's life experiences, traumas, traces of
his self and traces of his psychic structure in the work revealed in the visual arts. The facts intended
to be revealed in question reveal the autobiography of the artist in his work. While examining the
psychic structure of the artist, it was determined that the artist produced autobiographical works
with a Feminist approach, sometimes with life experiences and early effects on the artist's psyche.
While feminist artists aimed to defend gender equality and women's rights and freedoms, they
realized this through their own life experiences, and in this context, the facts related to the feminist
approach were transferred to art in their own psychic structures and unconsciously. In this context,
the research aims to examine the works of two prominent female artists in Feminist Art, Louise
Bourgeois and Tracey Emin, to examine their psychic structures with the psychoanalytic analysis
method, to reveal the autobiographical facts and to determine the feminist phenomena in the artist's
Psyche. In the study, it was determined that the two female artists included in the sample revealed
the Feminist phenomena stemming from their experiences, as well as the situations that exist in the
existential development of the individual in the pasicaanalytic context, and the Feminist phenomena
from the unconscious phenomena.