This article deals with the unconscious universe of the sculptures by the Brazilian sculptor Francisco Brennand (1927) and the archaic mechanisms that underlie their creation. Focused on the theme of origins this approach to Brennand's works studies the roots of sexual desire and its relation to partial objects, considering the subject's total consternation toward the cruelty of the artist's archaic sexuality and jouissance as a challenge to death and to the enigma of nothingness. The study then focusses on the sublimation process as transmutation of traumatic material and on the fate of the scopic drive and the drive toward cruelty in artistic creation.
Brennand; sublimation; origin; myth; jouissance; scopic and drive; cruelty drive