'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 shared relationship to the unconscious, severed from Romantic inspiration by Freud, is traced from the Surrealist engagement with psychoanalytic imagery to the contemporary critic's use of psychoanalytic concepts as tools to understand how meaning operates. Following the theme of the 'object' with its varying materiality, Walsh develops her argument that psychoanalysis, like art, is a cultural discourse about the mind in which the authority of discourse itself can be undermined, provoking ambiguity and uncertainty and destabilising identity. 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, the performance art of Marina Abramovic and post-minimalist sculpture.' - from back cover.

Includes a select bibliography and index.
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REF.WAM4
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English

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2013

No of pages

155

ISBN / ISSN

9781848857988

No of copies

1

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monograph

Chapter headings

Chapter 1: Distortion and Disguise: The Dream-Work

Chapter 2: Uncanny Eruptions

Chapter 3: Refashioning Fetishism and Masquerade

Chapter 4: Female Fetishism in the Expanded Field of Narcissism

Chapter 5: Eye and Gaze: Restoring Body to Vision

Chapter 6: The Evolution of Abjection

Chapter 7: Black Narcissus

Chapter 8: Repetition and the Death Drive

Chapter 9: Returning to Melanie Klein

Chapter 10: 'Real-Making': A Transitional Phenomenon

Chapter 11: New Skins for Old

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Art and Psychoanalysis