Using psychological elements in visual arts and examining in the light of cinema art

Freud's theory of psychoanalysis is, beyond being a psychotherapeutic theory, in spite of fierce criticism, has influenced many thought disciplines until art from philosophy and has been the most effective theory. Psychoanalysis, as well as helping us to examining art works, helps us to find traces from the artist's inner world. According to Freud; many artists, such as Hieronymus Bosch, Caravaggio, Goya and Picasso, whose works are analyzed in this work, are nourished by daytime dreams and unconsciousness during the creation process of their work. Jung put forts the concept of collective unconscious, which is common to all people, by expanding Freud's the unconscious concept consisting of repressed libidinal and aggressive impulses. The collective unconscious, provides us to explain with the help of intuition the artworks and symbols which are universal archetypes of the human kind. The artist expresses the collective unconscious in artworks. Psychoanalytic theory, as well as influencing many branches of art, is also useful in analyzing the extent to which artists, art works, and how much it artist reflect the self-unconscious to art works. In this work, as well as the consciousness of the artists, there are also items that are reflected as unconscious. In the works of Caravaggio, the homoerotic desire overflowing bodies, which in fact depicted own desires; the pessimism and depression that Goya reflected in his works; the effects of Trier's relationship with his mother, especially seen in the Antichrist film, are examples of this. In the Pictures of Bosch, Caravaggio, Goya and Picasso; in the photographs of Robert Capa and Erwin Olaf; Antichrist, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and MirrorMask in films were analyzed and revealed psychological items, psychoanalytic symbols and imagery. Keywords: Visual Arts, Psychoanalysis, Unconscious, Pleasure, Violence.