ABSTRACT
Most of the paintings portray a small extract or fragment of the mythology of the particular culture of each of the artists. It was common for groups of men to be involved in the painting at the beginnings of the indigenous art movement at Papunya in central Australia, in part through the encouragement of the teacher Geoffrey Bardon. A type of painting keenly sought after by collectors is the so-called “kangaroo rat” series by Pintupi artist Anatjari Tjakamarra. Jacques Lacan makes some striking observations of Sigmund Freud’s case history of the Rat Man. In Ibsen, Little Eyolf, like the Rat Man’s spectacles, is the object that animates the play. Freud makes the comment in a footnote: Ibsen’s Rat-Wife must certainly be derived from the legendary Pied Piper of Hamelin, who first enticed away the rats into the water, and then, by the same means, lured the children out of the town, never to return.
