Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna

Science, Eros, and the Psychoanalytic Imagination

Professor Emerita Mary Bergstein (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Publishing USA (Verlag)
979-8-7651-1195-6 (ISBN)

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Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna shows how photography and film in turn-of-the-century Vienna (the birthplace of psychoanalysis) not only reflected modernist ideas already in force, but helped to bring into being what might be referred to as a “psychoanalytic imagination.”

Mary Bergstein demonstrates that visual images not only illustrated, but also engendered ways of seeing social, psychological, and scientific ideas during a formative time in the creation and development of psychoanalysis and the modern age. Indeed, she argues that visual culture initiated significant aspects of psychoanalytic thought.

Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna examines a variety of visual materials and texts, ranging from scientific illustrations to popular "low culture" and even forms of erotica, including film. Attention is also given to women’s dresses and shoes in a social context and as they are represented in photography and circulated as fetish objects.

Bergstein maintains a commitment to women’s history and feminist inquiry throughout, particularly in her final chapter, which is devoted to the representations of women in the erotic photography and film. Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna is well illustrated with images drawn from the sources discussed and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of modernism and psychoanalysis.

Mary Bergstein is Professor Emerita of History of Art and Visual Culture at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), USA. She won the American Psychoanalytic Association “Courage to Dream” prize for Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography, and the History of Art (2010). Among her other books are In Looking Back One Learns to See: Marcel Proust and Photography (2014) and The Sculpture of Nanni di Banco (2000).

Introduction: Science, Eros, and the Psychoanalytic Imagination
1. X-Ray Photography and the Visual World
2. Freud, Saturn, and the Power of Hypnosis
3. Delusion and Dream in Vienna: Gradiva, Phryne, and the Child Woman

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Erscheinungsdatum	10.02.2024
Reihe/Serie	Psychoanalytic Horizons
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Professor Esther Rashkin, Professor Mari Ruti, Professor Peter L. Rudnytsky
Zusatzinfo	68 bw & color illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	979-8-7651-1195-6 / 9798765111956
Zustand	Neuware