Freud began his study of psychoanalysis by referring to the relationship between mind and body, using the concept of the drive to serve as a bridge between the two. Lacan, in contrast, used the concept of “shoring” (apuntalamiento) to refer to the appearance and separation of the order of desire from the order of need. An anaysis of the relationship between dance and psychoanalysis is an intriguing way to study the relationship between the body and psychoanalytic theory, from a unique perspective. For this reason, based on psychoanalysis, it can be said that dancing places the body of desire in essence, even though its object of love remains concealed. Dancing is an art of representation, a product of the symbolic world which, through the body, invents and evokes the map of the human soul through metaphores.
Dance; metaphor; body; desire