ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the psychoanalytic viewpoint referred to two seemingly unrelated exhibitions. One is a retrospective exhibition, at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, of Lucien Freud's work. The other is Tsibi Geva's exhibition called Blinds, held at a venue in Tel-Aviv. In psychoanalytic repetition there is a crossing of boundaries and a feeling of the uncanny, and it always ends in a failure to capture or recapture the object, like Orpheus' failure to bring Eurydice back to the land of the living. Orpheus, sori of Apollo and Calliope, leader of the Muses, inherited his musical talent from his father. The French philosopher Maurice Blanchot analysed in depth the myth of Orpheus as a model for the dilemma that lies at the foundation of modern literary work—work that deals with the search of its own origin. Orpheus' gaze killed the object of desire, in this case Eurydice; he lost the object and saved the movement of art.
