NEO-DADA, DECONSTRUCTION AND PSYCHOANALYSIS IN RAIMUND ABRAHAM’S WORK

Abstract

This essay looks into Raimund Abraham’s work “Hinge-Chair” (1970/71).  This purpose has two objectives, the first one is to make a personal and posthumous tribute   to whom in life, was my dissertation professor. The second one is to uncover motives, both conscious and unconscious, of this work from different points of view, such as philosophical deconstruction and Jungian psychoanalysis. This work offers a look of a work of art about neo avant-garde from the 60’s and 70’s and establishes its responsibility with historical avant-garde in the 20th century.

Key words: Neo-Dada, Deconstruction, psychoanalysis, contemporary art, aesthetics, Ready- made, ontology.