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KMID : 1148220180140020145
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Journal of Arts Psychotherapy
2018 Volume.14 No. 2 p.145 ~ p.168
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A Psychoanalytic Study on the Symbolic Images of Anxiety in Edward Hopper’s Works
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Song Hye-Eun
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Abstract
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This study aimed to symbolically illuminate the anxiety expressed in the work of Edward Hopper(1882-1967) from a psychoanalytic point of view. In this study, Hopper 's symbolic image of anxiety expressed in his work was classified into three themes: anxiety composed of light and color, anxiety expressed in a window motif and anxiety expressed in a female figure. First, in Hopper 's work, light and colors were depicted geometrically as angular shapes, such as rectangles or parallelograms. This light itself was an abstract form and idea, which was used as a kind of defense mechanism to replace the warmth being longing for inside. Second, the window motif represents the conflict between the instinct and the inner world of the self which would like to jump into reality but only gaze instead. The anxiety that came from communication and relationship was expressed through the window connecting the inside and the outside. The window further consolidated separation and fear of the enclosed space, and also expressed a reflection of the de-humanized social situation(standing). Third, female figures were introduced to express conflict and lack in the relationship of mother and wife, and the anxiety is connotatively expressed as a defensive system of deviation of gaze, symbolic depiction of object, projection, transference, and identification. In conclusion, Hopper showed the process of creative healing by integrating consciousness and unconsciousness through his works in a psychoanalytic point of view and by sublimating the oppressed mind energy into artistic energy.
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KEYWORD
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Edward Hopper, Psychoanalysis, Anxiety, Symbolic Image
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