Griselda Pollock 
Psychoanalysis and the Image [PDF ebook] 
Transdisciplinary Perspectives

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.

Table of Content

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.

About the author

Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical
Histories of Art and Director of the CATH Centre at the University
of Leeds. She is the author of Vision and Difference: Feminism,
Femininity and the Histories of Art (1988), Differencing the
Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Art’s Histories
(1999), Looking Back to the Future: Essays on Art, Life, and
Death (2000), and a monograph on Charlotte Salomon, Theatre
of Memory (2007).