Mary Bergstein

Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna (eBook, PDF)

Science, Eros, and the Psychoanalytic Imagination

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765111987
• Artikelnr.: 69744385

Autorenporträt

Mary Bergstein 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). Her essay "Faux Nudes and Body Art 1900" about body-stockings and women's tattoos appeared in History of Photography 2022. She is Professor Emerita of History of Art and Visual Culture at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).

Inhaltsangabe

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 Bibliography Index