Frida Khalo et les surréalistes : métaphores ou onirisme

Frida Kahlo and the surrealists : metaphores et onirisme. This paper is talking about the life of Frida Kahlo ; light is thrown on the scarce affection she receives from her mother and on the attachment for her indian nurse. Those psychical elements had an effect upon her political orientation, her sexuality and her paintings. After, is writen her polyomielite disease and her dramatic accident which handicaped her and made her feel throughout her life the presence of death ; this one is painted on her pictures by frequent skeletons. After her multiple operations she staid long days, alone in her bed, and she had time for introspection and free associations, and that incited her preconscious emergence. She depicted her fantasies by objects, vegetations and persons, to which she gave a conscious meaning. André Breton considered that Frida Kahlo was a «Surrealist who does not know she is one», because he thought that the details of her pictures had no logical bonds between them and that they were the expression of the mysterious inconsciousness. But, no the contrary, the artiste considered that her paintings was the conscious expression of her life ; this is described by the analysis of a few pictures. Nevertheless, this artiste received contribution given by the Surrealists : they widened her association freedom and gave her the knowledge of the inconscious process. In 1945, Frida Kahlo read Freud’s Moses and Monotheism ; after this lecture she painted Moses and the her’s birth. The meaning of this picture and the Collective Inconscionsness that is represented on it, are described in this paper. In the conclusion is suggested the inconscious cathexis that induced her fellings and actions in her life.