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The aim of this study is to offer some psychological reflections on the work of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, physician and renowned writer, one of the leading figures in European theatre at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Our work will, which draws on the Fusco method, focus in particular on the short story Fat and Thin, first published in 1883 and followed by a second version published in 1886, analysing how the themes of loneliness and alienation, recurrent throughout Chekhov’s work, reflect the human and...

Our study analyses the representation of childhood in the works of art by Marc Chagall, Jean Dubuffet and Gian Carlo Riccardi, highlighting how, despite their different styles and approaches, all three artists used this theme for a profound iconographic and psychological exploration. This theme is present in the expressive research of numerous artists who have captured the immediacy, nostalgia and carefreeness of the world of childhood. The methodology is based on the principles of Art and Literature Psychology, w...

The aim of this paper is to conduct a psychological analysis on Franz Kafka (1883-1924), an eminent figure of the 20th century, known for his disturbing and dreamlike works. This study takes its place in the current landscape of Kafka studies, which often focus on philosophical or sociological interpretations, by proposing a novel psychological perspective on his creativity. The Bohemian writer’s creative and literary thinking will be analysed and the short story Absent-minded Window-gazing from Contemplation (1...

The aim of this study is to conduct a psychological analysis of three of the most controversial and interesting historical figures of the second half of the Nineteenth century, forerunners of their time, linked not only by their parental point of view, but by the same ideals aimed at the pursuit of dreams, tenderness and the impossible freedom they never managed to find in life: Empress Elisabeth of Austria, King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Crown Prince Rudolf of Habsburg. The work aims to relate these three personal...

The aim of this study is to analyse some paintings by the Italian, multimedia and avantgarde artist Gian Carlo Riccardi (1933-2015), in which the concept of creation and destruction, or rather, as Freud would say, Eros and the destructive drive, predominate at the same time. Our study will focus in particular on the execution of these works, leading to a kind of ‘creative destruction’. This work intends to show how Gian Carlo Riccardi uses heterogeneous and salvaged materials to create pictorial works in which...

The aim of this study is to show how painting, in Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), is an active expression of the Dutch painter’s madness, inner anxieties and social unease through the vigour of the sign and the brutal incandescence of colour. The pictorial material is a direct manifestation of the inner datum and becomes a means of exorcising the ‘evil of living’ that consumed the artist. Within this work, we will consider how in the works of Van Gogh, forerunner of the expressionist language, creativity and m...

This work aims to present one of the most original and complex characters of the 20th century, the writer James Joyce (1882-1941). The study consists of a careful research and psychological investigation of the Irish writer’s thought through the analysis of one of his best-known works, Dubliners. In particular, the last story of Joyce’s extensive work, The Dead, will be examined. In the course of the work, particular emphasis will be placed on the themes and concepts present and recurring in Joyce’s works an...

This research aims to study the sculptures and installations of the Italian multimedia and avant-garde artist Gian Carlo Riccardi (1933-2015). Our psychological study will particularly consider the ‘rooms’, installations created by the artist with simple objects and recycled materials such as paper, cardboard, plexiglass and predominantly iron and wood using the logic of the ready-made. The artist's sculptures and installations are constructed and represented through painted and coloured walls depicting abstra...

The purpose of this study is to conduct a careful psychological investigation into the thought of one of the most important 20th century Irish writers, James Joyce (1882- 1941). The main focus of the analysis consists of some of the short stories contained in one of Joyce’s most famous works, Dubliners, with particular reference to Evelyne and at the same time examining some of the themes present and recurring in the Irish writer’s books. This work aims to demonstrate how in Joyce there is a strong interest in...

The present work aims to address the role that psychology plays within literary works starting from a "critical" reading aimed at understanding and recognizing the psychological and in some works also psychopathological traits present within the texts. Our goal will be to present the conscious and unconscious aspects of the various characters and identify the reasons that prompted the author to create and analyze certain psychological issues and certain environmental situations. The methodology that will be used w...

The main purpose of this study is to analyse and examine some of the paintings of the Italian avant-garde artist Gian Carlo Riccardi. Our work will focus in particular on a psychological study of the paintings and drawings realised by the artist. Our study basically focuses on the compositions created between the 1980s and 1990s and the graphic works executed in the 2000s. The first category examines certain works characterised by intense abstractionism. The pictorial material used by Gian Carlo Riccardi is manipu...

Introduction: Within the concept of women in the archaic Roman era, the present paper will attempt a believable reconstruction of the passage of the vestal woman figure, subjected to the male “potestas” of the “pontfex maximus” in which Eros was sacrificed to the Civitas due to the blackmail of equal rights, to the recovery of the woman as an object of Christian contemplation. Objective and Method: The aim of this article, through the analysis of recognized sources, is to study the axiom according to which...

The present work aims to address the literary genre of fairy tales on the basis of their psychologicaland educational value aimed at satisfying the psychological-emotional and cognitive-ethical aspects. The objectives will be to present the conscious and unconscious aspects of the characters and to reveal the creative abilities that fairy tales contain: what are the main characteristics and their psychological value. The fairy tale represents an important point both in the field of imagination and creativity and y...

Introduction This paper intends to propose a thinking about art and science as different manifestations of human culture. Objective and Method Goal of this paper, through analysis and observation, is to underline how art and science are interpenetrated so as to interface, inspire and influence each other. [1] (Arieti S., Creativita. La Sintesi Magica. Il Pensiero Scientifico, Italy, 1979) Intuition is what promotes and moves art and science. this is the basis of creativity and man, through him, supposes and glimps...

The purpose of this work is to analyze the psychopathological components that emerge from the self-portraits of Williams Utermonhler, contemporary painter suffering from Alzheimer's disease. This pathology usually begins in old age and has as main characteristic the progressive decline of the faculties of thought and of the logical-critical capacities. The painter, however, begins to have the first symptoms of the disease at a young age. The nine self-portraits are examined using a survey methodology specific to t...