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Art and Psychoanalysis (Book)
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Art and Psychoanalysis (Book)
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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 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. 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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