ABSTRACT
This chapter explores art as the psychological processes that involves in art creation and appreciation. With ego psychology, the psychoanalytic emphasis began to shift to art as an activity of the ego. Once we separate out the definition of art from the cultural institutions and products which we associated with art we will find that psychoanalysis is a form of art, a process in which subjectivity is externalized, worked on and perfected. Classical psychoanalysts never considered what art is. Freud appeared to view art as a form of defensive behavior, which he saw as an effective opportunity for the mobilization of a range of different psychological mechanisms, such as displacement, condensation, and most importantly, sublimation. He expresses the Phantasy in a form that both expresses the Phantasy but also makes it special. In this way art creates experience that amalgamates Phantasy and idealization.
