ART AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

Often derided as unscientific and self-indulgent, psychoanalysis has been an invaluable resource for artists, art critics and histor ians throughout the twentieth century. Art and Psychoanalysis investigates these encounters. The shared relationship to the unconsci ous, severed from Romantic inspiration by Freud, is traced from the Surrealist engagement with psychoanalytic imagery to the contemp orary critic s use of psychoanalytic concepts as tools to understand how meaning operates. Following the theme of the object with it s varyin...[Read more]