Susan's discussion of desire reminds of surrealism, I think that all the that she is talking about resonates with the psychoanalysis. Here she said " During the mirror phase (state du miroir) the child acquires an imaginary identification of the real, corporeal image as a unified image. In this creation, the unified subject, the self begins to be positioned in the sociality and is available to the further modifications made possible by language and the symbolic" (Susan, 1993). I relate this to the concept of Oedipus complex, the child's state of mind that explored by Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalyses. In search for meaning and truth, the child develops a feeling desire for the opposite-sex parent which sort generates a kind of jealousy and anger toward the same-sex parent.

Egon Shiele used portraits and self-portraits to explore the psyches and sexuality of the models. He also distorted the figures in a grotesque way, expressing his emotions through external exaggeration of the body. Susan said, "The grotesque body thus can be affected by the exaggeration of its internal elements, the turning of the " inside out", the display of orifices and gaps upon the exterior and interior of the body". (Susan 1993) I find this quote as resonance with the works of Egon Shieles and Gustav Klimpts.

Gustav Klimt, Jurisprudence, 1907

Egon Shiele, Self-Portrait, Grimacing, 1910