Psychoanalysis and the Image: Transdisciplinary Perspectives (New Interventions in Art History)

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 periods
• Covers topics including melancholia, sex, and pathology to the body, and parent-child relations
• Advances theoretical debates in art history while offering substantive analyses of significant bodies of twentieth century art
• Edited by internationally renowned art historian Griselda Pollock.

Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the CATH Centre at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and the Histories of Art (1988), Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Art’s Histories (1999), Looking Back to the Future: Essays on Art, Life, and Death (2000), and a monograph on Charlotte Salomon, Theatre of Memory (2007).