Jackson Pollock's dripping paintings was represented the flatness of a surface
with line and colour only. His paintings was far from with realistic, naturalistic
image. But in his works of art it is an unusual phenomenon that his and
come into views with human figure. So it is analyzed to represent
his mother image through the with Psychoanalysis theory. It is interpreted with the
image of 'object a' with Jacques Lacan's theory's because of splitting mother's
body in the course of the symbolic state. Pollock cut out the human figure in
, and he represented the human figure to again. His
work was stand for absence and presence of mother's figure.
His work was resembled child's paly with wood reel with a piece of string
round it. So to speak, it menas the absence of mother's body with the child's
throwing of it. On the contrary it means the presence of mother's body with the
child's drawing of it. So he wanted to the joyful return of his mother through the
image of his works.
But the appearance of the woman's image with the was represented the image of the repetition -compulsion. It is
resembled the child's repeated behavior with the desire of the repetition
-compulsion. The child's repeated behavior is meaning the renunciation of the
satisfaction of an instinct. For that reason the appearance of woman's figure with
is interpreted with as the absence of mother.
Finally in the view of the result, he wanted the return of his mother with through
and , and represented
his renunciation of the satisfaction of an instinct, so to speak be existing of his
mother's absence.