Psychoanalysis and the Image brings together an influential team of international scholars who demonstrate innovative ways to apply psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern art and visual representation.
Examines psychoanalytic concepts, values, debates and controversies that have been hallmarks of visual representation in the modern and contemporary periods
Covers topics including melancholia, sex, and pathology to the body, and parent-child relations
Advances theoretical debates in art history while offering substantive analyses of significant bodies of twentieth century art
Edited by internationally renowned art historian Griselda Pollock.
List of Figures. Notes on Contributers.
Series Editor's Preface.
Preface.
1. The Image in Psychoanalysis and the Archaeological Metaphor. (Griselda Pollock).
2. Dreaming Art. (Mieke Bal).
3. Fascinance and the Girl-to-m/Other Matrixial Feminine Difference. (Brache L. Ettinger).
4. Melancholia and Cezanne's Portraits: Faces beyond the Mirror. (Young-Paik Chun).
5. Yayoi Kusama between Abstraction and Pathology. (Izumi Nakajime).
6. Diaspora without Resistance? Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE and the Law of Genre. (Karyne Ball).
7. Fragment(s) of an Analysis: Chantal Akerman's News from Home (or a Mother-Daughter Tale of Two Cities). (Adriana Cerne).
Bibliography.
Index.
