Visual Politics of Psychoanalysis: Art and the Image in Post-traumatic Cultures

'Activists working in post-traumatic societies have tended to resist psychoanalytical terms because they fear that pathologizing individual suffering displaces the collective and political causes of traumatic violence. In a contrary direction, some thinkers about discourse and power have latterly embraced what Judith Butler insists is 'the psychic life of power'. An openly psychoanalytical modelling of trauma for approaching major historical events such as the Holocaust adds yet a third position. Drawing on all three strands, this book poses the question of visual politics to psychoanalysis. It also explores the relevance of the many psychoanalyses to the study of art and other images in post-traumatic conditions. Visual Politics of Psychoanalysis builds on maverick art historian Aby Warburg's project of combining social, cultural, anthropological and psychological analyses of the image in order to track the undercurrents of cultural violence in the representational repertoire of Western modernity.
[...] Drawing on post-colonial and feminist theory, they analyse the image and the aesthetic in conditions of historical trauma from enslavement and colonisation to the Irish Famine, from Denmark's national trauma about migrants and cartoons to collective shock after 9/11, from individual traumas of loss registered in allegory to newsreels and documentaries on suicide bombing in Israel/Palestine, from Kristeva's novels to Kathryn Bigelow's cinema.' - from back cover.

Includes a list of contributors and an index.

Alternative title

New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts

Access level

Onsite

publisher

I.B. Tauris (London, United Kingdom)

editor

Griselda POLLOCK

Location code

REF.POG

Language

English

Keyword

visual culture, war, trauma, feminism, postcolonialism, cultural studies, art history, psychology

Publication/Creation date

2013

No of pages

262

ISBN / ISSN

9781780763163

No of copies

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Series Preface - New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts - Griselda POLLOCK

Introduction - Griselda POLLOCK

Contest-Nation Denmard: A PTSD-struck Nation Contesting Analysis - Henrik HOLM

In Miniature: Trauma and Indigenous Identity in Colonial Canada - Kristina HUNEAULT

The 'Irish Holocaust': Historical Trauma and the Commemoration of the Famine - Emily Mark FITZGERALD

Courbet's Trauerspiel: Trouble with Women in the Painter's Studio - Jenny Tennant JACKSON

Astonishing Marine Living: Ellen Gallagher's Ichthyosaurus at the Freud Museum - Suzanna CHAN

New York Transfixed: Notes on the Expression of Fear - Sharon SLIWINSKI

Dan Graham, Reality Television and the Vicissitudes of Surveilance - Paula CARABELL

Towards an Iconomy of Violence: Julia Kristeva in the Between of Ethics and Politics - Maria MARGARONI

From Horrorism to Compassion: Re-facing Medusan Otherness in Dialogue with Adriana Caverero and Bracha Ettinger - Griselda POLLOCK

Encountering Blue Steel: Changing Tempers in Cinema - Nicholas CHARE

Visual Politics of Psychoanalysis: Art and the Image in Post-traumatic Cultures

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