Art and psychoanalysis / Maria Walsh.

By:

Walsh, Maria

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Art and-Publication details: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 155 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780857721839
0857721836

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Art and psychoanalysis.DDC classification:

111.85 22

LOC classification:

N72.P74 W357 2013eb

NLM classification:

2014 E-003
WM 460.2

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Contents:

Chapter 1 Distortion and Disguise: The Dream-Work 9 -- Chapter 2 Uncanny Eruptions 20 -- Chapter 3 Refashioning Fetishism and Masquerade 34 -- Chapter 4 Female Fetishism in the Expanded Field of Narcissism 45 -- Chapter 5 Eye and Gaze: Restoring Body to Vision 56 -- Chapter 6 The Evolution of Abjection 68 -- Chapter 7 Black Narcissus 82 -- Chapter 8 Repetition and the Death Drive 94 -- Chapter 9 Returning to Melanie Klein 105 -- Chapter 10 'Real-Making': A Transitional Phenomenon 115 -- Chapter 11 New Skins for Old 124.

Summary: Often derided as unscientific and self-indulgent, psychoanalysis has been an invaluable resource for artists, art critics and historians throughout the twentieth century. 'Art and Psychoanalysis' investigates these encounters. The dynamics of the dream-work, Freud's 'familiar unfamiliar', fetishism, visual mastery, abjection, repetition, and the death drive are explored through detailed analysis of artists ranging from Max Ernst to Louise Bourgeois, including 1980s postmodernists such as Cindy Sherman, installation artists such as Mike Kelley and post-minimalist sculpture. Innovative and disturbing, 'Art and Psychoanalysis' investigates key psychoanalytic concepts to reveal a dynamic relationship between art and psychoanalysis which goes far beyond interpretation. There is no cure for the artist - but art can reconcile us to the traumatic nature of human experience, converting the sadistic impulses of the ego towards domination and war into a masochistic ethics of responsibility and desire.

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Often derided as unscientific and self-indulgent, psychoanalysis has been an invaluable resource for artists, art critics and historians throughout the twentieth century. 'Art and Psychoanalysis' investigates these encounters. The dynamics of the dream-work, Freud's 'familiar unfamiliar', fetishism, visual mastery, abjection, repetition, and the death drive are explored through detailed analysis of artists ranging from Max Ernst to Louise Bourgeois, including 1980s postmodernists such as Cindy Sherman, installation artists such as Mike Kelley and post-minimalist sculpture. Innovative and disturbing, 'Art and Psychoanalysis' investigates key psychoanalytic concepts to reveal a dynamic relationship between art and psychoanalysis which goes far beyond interpretation. There is no cure for the artist - but art can reconcile us to the traumatic nature of human experience, converting the sadistic impulses of the ego towards domination and war into a masochistic ethics of responsibility and desire.