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Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna: Science, Eros, and the Psychoanalytic Imagination

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Full Title:

Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna: Science, Eros, and the Psychoanalytic Imagination

Contributors:

By (Author) Professor Emerita Mary Bergstein
Series edited by Professor Esther Rashkin
Series edited by Professor Mari Ruti
Series edited by Professor Peter L. Rudnytsky

ISBN:

9798765111963

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Publication Date:

18th April 2024

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Professional and Scholarly

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Literary theory
Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology
History of art
Gender studies: women and girls
Social and cultural history

Dewey:

770.943613

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

240

Dimensions:

Width 140mm, Height 216mm

Description

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 womens dresses and shoes in a social context and as they are represented in photography and circulated as fetish objects. Bergstein maintains a commitment to womens 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.

Author Bio

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).

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