1st Edition

The Emptiness of the Image Psychoanalysis and Sexual Differences

By Parveen Adams Copyright 1996
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

There has long been a politics around the way in which women are represented, with objection not so much to specific images as to a regime of looking which places the represented woman in a particular relationship to the spectator's gaze. Artists have sometimes avoided the representation of women altogether, but they are now producing images which challenge the regime. How do these images succeed... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Symptoms and hysteria; Chapter 3 Per os(cillation); Chapter 4 Of female bondage; Chapter 5 Waiving the phallus; Chapter 6 The truth on assault, With Mark Cousins; Chapter 7 The art of analysis: Mary Kelly's Interimand the discourse of the analyst; Chapter 8 ‘Father, can't you see I’m filming?’; Chapter 9 The violence of paint; Chapter 10 The three (dis)graces; Chapter 11 The bald truth; Chapter 12 Operation Orlan;

Biography

Parveen Adams