Antonin Artaud and the right to be

Abstract

In this article the fundamental facts, the behavior and the work of the poet, playwright and writer Antonin Artaud and from them sustain an approach to the understanding of the psychic structure of the author. Artaud, was part of the French surrealist movement, He was born September, 4th, 1896 in Marseille, France and died March 4th 1948 in Paris. He gave meaning to his cruel and threatening inner images through art. He represented his inner psychic world through his work portraying the anguish of the subject who has remained in the “thing” representation and who has not been able to acquire a sense of life through what he perceives from the outside but interprets the world through original sensations and perceptions of “the thing” lacking in affectivity, which at every moment threatens him with death. His actions and work, make clear his friendship and love towards every human being, who lives a pathology in opposition to the institutions. Antonin Artaud with his life and work takes the viewer to touch the cruelty not being able to be, proposing in his legacy the recognition and respect for each other's ways of being, allowing freedom of expression, experimentation and authentic realization, sustained in love and in commitment to reality.