Psychoanalysis and the Image: Transdisciplinary Perspectives. New Interventions in Art History.

by Griselda Pollock (Editor)

"Psychoanalysis and the Image" brings together an influential team of international scholars to use psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern art and visual representation. Beginning with a substantial introduction by the editor, the volume covers a range of psychoanalytic concepts, including melancholia, trauma, sexuality, the dream, and femininity. Fresh, creative, and passionate about its subjects, "Psychoanalysis and the Image" advances methodological debates in theoretically enriched histories of art while offering closely-read visual analyses of significant works of international twentieth-century art. It teaches theory in practice while enabling general readers to learn about psychoanalysis through their interest in the visual arts.

Genres: Psychoanalysis, Art History

265 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 1, 2005

About the author

Griselda Pollock is a visual theorist, cultural analyst and scholar of international, postcolonial feminist studies in the visual arts. Based in England, she is well known for her theoretical and methodological innovation, combined with readings of historical and contemporary art, film and cultural theory. She is professor of social and critical histories of art at the University of Leeds.

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[notes on Ettingers chapter]
-fascinum: unconsc. elemenet in the image that stops and freezes life. gaze inside image
-fascinance: transformational. subjectiviszing potentiality of a matrixial link. daughter solicits it in girl-mother relations
-caught in illusion of reciprocal gaze
-fascinum must becoem fascinance, and then complete the subjectivizing move.
-fascinance as fascinating-fascinated gaze
-failed/arrested fascinance results in endless attempts to reconstruct a scene
-cry of baby for fascinance with m/Other in archaic relationship
-the goal is to make alliance with a Woman--a figure of femininity that dwells beneath a fatal woman-m/Other figure. but this fatal woman becomes inaccessible, hidden behidn the phantasy of the phallic mother (All-mother)
-girls prematurely outcast from moment of transformation assume a frozen fixation with her change. she therefore remains an eternal child captured in a repetitive primal scene out of which she cannot emerge for lack of absorption in a gaze of fascinance.
-the solution is inclusion in trans-subjectivity by a compassionate, generous hospitality. Co-EVENTING, CO-EMERGENCE IN THE REAL.
-ffAm: femme-fatale-Autre-mere
-matrixial sphere: unconsc. borderpsace of the several
-feminine: matrixially, a diferential potentiality before nad beyond this phallic dichotomy
-The archaiv woman (non-I0 and the infant-Girl-daughter (I) coemerge and differentiate in primordial encounter.