Sigmund Freud's Figural Psychoanalysis
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Author: Horst Bredekamp (ed.)
Sigmund Freud’s research into Michel- angelo’s Moses and the collection of small sculpted figures from Antiquity attest to a visual psychoanalysis that contradicted the reputed iconoclasm of that discipline. Freud himself drew inspiration from items in his collection; but he also incorporated these into the treatment of his patients. Whatwe now know of these aspects of his life and work may serve as a key to a deeper understanding of his theory of the unconscious.In order to use to best advantage his preoccupation with the visual, Freud was obliged to conceal this aspect of his psychoanalytic method, to “veil” it.This in itself reveals how far psycho- analysis, as a space of liberation, could nonetheless be subject to cultural constraints, not least the prohibition of images in the Mosaic tradition.
ISBN 9783689242442. De Gruyter. hb. 160 pages. 20 colour, 40 b/w ills. 24 x 15 cm.
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Sigmund Freud’s research into Michel- angelo’s Moses and the collection of small sculpted figures from Antiquity attest to a visual psychoanalysis that contradicted the reputed iconoclasm of that discipline. Freud himself drew inspiration from items in his collection; but he also incorporated these into the treatment of his patients. Whatwe now know of these aspects of his life and work may serve as a key to a deeper understanding of his theory of the unconscious.In order to use to best advantage his preoccupation with the visual, Freud was obliged to conceal this aspect of his psychoanalytic method, to “veil” it.This in itself reveals how far psycho- analysis, as a space of liberation, could nonetheless be subject to cultural constraints, not least the prohibition of images in the Mosaic tradition.
ISBN 9783689242442. De Gruyter. hb. 160 pages. 20 colour, 40 b/w ills. 24 x 15 cm.
not yet published