Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna : Science, Eros, and the Psychoanalytic Imagination / Mary Bergstein [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bergstein, Mary, author.

Series:

Psychoanalytic horizons.

Psychoanalytic Horizons Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Social aspects--Austria--Vienna.

Photography.

Psychology and art--Austria--Vienna--20th century.

Psychology and art.

Art and society--Austria--Vienna--20th century.

Art and society.

Vienna (Austria)--Moral conditions--19th century.

Vienna (Austria).

Vienna (Austria)--Moral conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, [2024]

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

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.

Contents:

X-ray Photography and the Visual Imagination in Vienna

Freud, Saturn, and the Power of Hypnosis

Delusion and Dream in Vienna: Gradiva, Phryne, and the Child Woman.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798765111970

9798765111987

OCLC:

1395139081