Viederman M
Cornell University Medical College, New York.
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 1987;35(4):967-98. doi: 10.1177/000306518703500408.
René Magritte was profoundly influenced in his painterly style and in the content of many of his paintings by his mother's suicide when he was fourteen. This paper explores the influence of this traumatic event on his work. My thesis is that the nighttime suicide of Magritte's mother by drowning: (1) had a profound impact on the form and style of his paintings; (2) his paintings represented an effort, mostly successful, to contain and master through intellectual control with isolation of affect the trauma of this experience, which must at the time have evoked helplessness and despair; (3) the contents of a series of his paintings directly reconstruct the traumatic experience under control and in the service of mastery; and (4) there are paintings, mostly painted at the time he clearly developed his own style (1926-1930), that reveal a breakthrough of projected primitive aggressive impulses and unconscious representations of the aggressive mother. In these latter paintings, both form and content are dramatically different from the main corpus of Magritte's work.
勒内·马格利特14岁时母亲自杀，这对他的绘画风格以及许多画作的内容都产生了深远影响。本文探讨了这一创伤性事件对其作品的影响。我的论点是，马格利特的母亲在夜间投水自杀：（1）对他画作的形式和风格产生了深远影响；（2）他的画作体现了一种努力，且大多是成功的，即通过理智控制来抑制和掌控这种经历所带来的创伤，这种创伤在当时必定引发了无助和绝望，同时将情感隔离开来；（3）他一系列画作的内容直接在掌控之下重构了这段创伤经历，并服务于掌控的目的；（4）有一些画作，大多是在他明确形成自己风格的时期（1926 - 1930年）创作的，这些画作揭示了原始攻击性冲动的投射以及具有攻击性的母亲的无意识表征的突破。在这些后期画作中，形式和内容都与马格利特作品的主体有显著不同。
