1st Edition

Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art The Cut in Creation

By Vanessa Sinclair Copyright 2021
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art examines a strain of artists spanning more than a century, beginning at the dawn of photography and culminating in the discussion of contemporary artists, to illustrate various psychoanalytic concepts by examining artists working in a multitude of media. Drawing on the theories of Sigmund Freud, who applied psychoanalytic methods to art and literature to... Read more

Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Part I - Sowing Seeds/Setting the Stage; Chapter 1: A Cut in Time: The Advent of Photography; Chapter 2: Reimagining the Frame: The Birth of Modern Art; Part II - Unleashing the Unconscious; Chapter 3: The Art of Noise; Chapter 4: Psychoanalysis and Dada; Chapter 5: Collage, Photomontage and Assemblage; Chapter 6: Disrupting the Expected: Marcel Duchamp; Part III - Revolution of Mind; Chapter 7: Surrealism/Acéphale; Chapter 8: Double-bind: Cutting the Bonds of Gender; Chapter 9: The Cutting Edge: Avant-garde and Experimental Cinema; Chapter 10: The Cut-up Method of the Beats; Part IV - When Art Becomes Life (and Death); Chapter 11: Acting Out: Pop, Street and Performance Art; Chapter 12: Cut from the Collective: Alternative Communities; Chapter 13: Body Modification, Polymorphous Perversity and Pandrogeny; Chapter 14: Technology, Morbidity, Death and the Unexpected; Index

Biography

Vanessa Sinclair, PsyD, is a psychoanalyst based in Stockholm. Dr Sinclair is the author of Switching Mirrors (2016), editor of Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (2019), and co-editor of On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (2018) with Dr Manya Steinkoler.