Psychoanalysis and the Image

Psychoanalysis and the Image brings together an influential team of international scholars who demonstrate innovative ways to apply psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern art and visual representation. Examines psychoanalytic concepts, values, debates and controversies that have been hallmarks of visual representation in the modern and contemporary periodsCovers topics including melancholia, sex, and pathology to the body, and parent-child relationsAdvances theoretical debates in art history while offering substantive analyses of significant bodies of twentieth century artEdited by internationally renowned art historian Griselda Pollock.