Object Book and Effect: Hypotheses in the Creation Process

Abstract

As an object that unites different supports from the visual arts to literary art, the object-book raises, both in its creation process with the author/artist, and in the moment of reading/appreciation with the reader, significant sensations and emotions, with potentialities of awakening repressed feelings and generating relevant resignifications to the subject. In this way, the present article uses, to justify such proposition, the importance of art to humanity and the concept of object-book, recognizing its potentialities as a literary and artistic object; the creative potential present in the creation process, in Fayga Ostrower's conception, and in the act of reading, by Wolfgang Iser and Jorge Larrosa; the catharsis of Aristotle and its use by Sigmund Freud and Carl G. Jung, and the conceptions of art therapy, from Selma Ciornai, theoretically supporting and justifying the relevance of this artistic and literary object.