The feeling of incompleteness: a psychoanalytic reading of Los Disparates by Goya

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https://doi.org/10.15517/43z90m30

Keywords:

Francisco de Goya, Los Disparates, Incompleteness, Uprising, Engraving

Abstract

This article examines Los Disparates by Francisco de Goya from a historical, aesthetic, and psychoanalytic perspective, focusing on incompleteness as a formal strategy. Through Disparate desordenado, it argues that compositional instability and lack of closure are deliberate gestures against the ideal of totality. In dialogue with Jean Allouch’s notion of sublevación, the series is read as an act of freedom embedded in its structure.

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  • Ilan Granados Granados, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.

    Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), San José, Costa Rica. https://ror.org/02yzgww51 Bachelor in Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Psychology.

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2026-04-23

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Vol. 21 No. 1 (2026): Wimb lu (January-June) Continuous publication. Art and psychological knowledge at the crossroads of contemporary subjectivations

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Sección especial: Arte y saberes psi ante las encrucijadas de las subjetivaciones contemporáneas

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How to Cite

Granados Granados, I. (2026). The feeling of incompleteness: a psychoanalytic reading of Los Disparates by Goya. Wimb Lu, 21(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.15517/43z90m30