ABSTRACT
Any good work of art has a capacity to “draw” and evoke the experience of the reality of the Unconscious. In the presence of a painting, the ordinary experience of reality may be transformed into an experience of the mind writ large. The larger mind is not only inside but also outside and represents and realizes a structural connection between object and subject, the external and internal, the representational and emotional worlds. The work of art functions as a symbolic object that links the subjective experience of the artist with the subjective experience of the viewer. Because the subjectivity of the artist is included in the object of art, the latter also has an impact on the subjectivity of the viewer. In “The Moses of Michelangelo”, Freud (1914) described his subjective experience of Michelangelo’s sculpture.
