Aowing to the experience that this world is a place of suffering, man has always fantasized about rescue doctrines in religions and in social ideologies. Today, after the painful parentheses of Marxism, which is criticized for not having succeeded in its project for society (for having believed that the terror exercised by the "dictatorship of the proletariat" would change men by ridding them once and for all of their impulses capitalists to the accumulation of wealth and psychoanalysis (who cannot be forgiven for the duration of his treatment and his random healings). But, could it be otherwise for a technique which relies on a phantasmic father to articulate his speeches in the falsely symbolic mode?
Deprived of the appropriate tool to get the patient out of the imaginary enclosure in which the all-powerful mother locks him, the psychoanalyst who speaks of “symbolic castration”, in an empty discourse, could not achieve his goal: exhaustive healing. Because, it is the creation of the preverbal forms and the structuring which result from the symbolic castration which produces the healing effect.
"Art therapy" is the hope of salvation which crystallizes the dreams of disoriented humanity in this period of deep crisis that "thinkers" do not hesitate to see as the end of Judeo-Christian civilization.
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