Lacan and the lost object of desire in painting

Man's relationship with the object of desire plays an important role in shaping his spiritual structure, and this spiritual structure affects life deeply. Therefore, the way to understand the human being is to understand the spiritual structure. Here, while psychoanalysis tries to understand what belongs to human beings from the spiritual structure, art tries to explain what belongs to the human being, again from the spiritual structure. As a matter of fact, the spiritual structure is the intersection point of both disciplines. According to Lacan, in the first months of life, the subject perceives the world through images. Then the subject enters the "mirror phase" where he will have an identity. Initially, the child, who cannot recognize his own image in front of the mirror, recognizes himself with the passing of time and accordingly begins to have an ego. After the imaginary period, the child encounters the law through language. This law is the law of the Other, and Lacan calls it the "symbolic order". The child encounters the rules of the world in which he will live. In addition, the effects of the real order, which is outside the symbolic order and in which the experiences belonging to the pre-linguistic period occur, also touch the life. Therefore, the artist feels these effects of the unconscious deeply and tries to explain them in his work from time to time. In our study, the projection of the object of desire that shapes the spiritual structure, which is the intersection of art and psychoanalysis, on the works of the mentioned artists will be examined through elements such as color, form, technique, style and subject. According to Lacan, the effects of desiring the desire of the Other, chasing the impossible and that lost object of desire in the spiritual world will be examined in the context of imaginary, symbolic and real, and the reflections of this situation in works of art will be analyzed. As a matter of fact, in this study, Jacques Lacan, who put forward a theory to understand the human soul, used concepts such as the gaze of the Other, objet petit a, object of desire, gaze, Father's law, anxiety, scoptic impulse, tukhe and automaton, and their effects on the spiritual world. These effects manifest themselves through projections such as color, form, technique and subject in the artwork. The work of art is fed from the spiritual world in the process of formation and directly touches the soul of the viewer. After all, while the psychoanalyst tries to understand the human being, the artist tells him through the work. Keywords: Imaginary, Symbolic, Real, Other, Objet petit a, Law, Unconscious, Phallus, Castration, Art, Aesthetics