Visual politics and psychoanalysis : art and the image in post-traumatic cultures

Author(s)

• Pollock, Griselda

Bibliographic Information

Visual politics and psychoanalysis : art and the image in post-traumatic cultures

edited by Griselda Pollock

（New encounters : arts, cultures, concepts）

I.B. Tauris, 2013

• : HB
• : PB

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: HB ISBN 9781780763156

Description

In this innovative collection, a distinguished group of international authors dare to think psychoanalytically about the legacies of political violence and suffering in relation to post-traumatic cultures worldwide. They build on maverick art historian Aby Warburg's project of combining social, cultural, anthropological and psychological analyses of the image in order to track the undercurrents of cultural violence in the representational repertoire of Western modernity. Drawing on post-colonial and feminist theory, they analyze the image and the aesthetic in conditions of historical trauma, from enslavement and colonization to the Irish Famine, from Denmark's national trauma about migrants and cartoons to collective shock after 9/11, from individual traumas of loss registered in allegory to newsreels and documentaries on suicide bombing in Israel/Palestine, and from Kristeva's novels to Kathryn Bigelow's cinema.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Series Editor's Preface: New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts Griselda Pollock Introduction: Visual Politics and Psychoanalyses Griselda Pollock I National Wounds and Contested Memory 1 Contest-Nation: Denmark - A PSTD-Struck Nation Contesting Analysis Henrik Ole Holm 2 Miniature Objects of Cultural Covenant: Transition and Translation in British North America Kristin Huneault 3 The Irish 'Holocaust" and the Commemoration of Famine Emily FitzGerald II Trauma and Allegory 4 Courbet's Trauerspiel: Trouble with Women in the Studio Jennifer Tennant Jackson 5 Astonishing Marine Living: Ellen Gallagher at the Freud Museum Suzanna Chan III Fear and Surveillance 6 Transfixed: The Expression of Emotion as a History of Images Sharon Sliwinski 7 Dan Graham, Reality Television and the Society of Surveillance Paula Carabell IV Violence and Sexual Difference 8 Towards an Iconomy of Violence: Julia Kristeva in the Between of Ethics and Politics Maria Margaroni 9 From Horrorism to Compassion: Re-facing Medusan Otherness in dialogue with Adriana Cavarero and Bracha Ettinger Griselda Pollock 10 Encountering Blue Steel: Changing Tempers in Cinema Nicholas Chare Contributors' Biographies Bibliography Index

Volume

: PB ISBN 9781780763163

Description

Activists working in post-traumatic societies have tended to resist psychoanalytical terms because they fear that pathologizing individual suffering displaces the collective and political causes of traumatic violence. In a contrary direction, some thinkers about discourse and power have latterly embraced what Judith Butler insists is 'the psychic life of power'. An openly psychoanalytical modelling of trauma for approaching major historical events such as the Holocaust adds yet a third position. Drawing on all three strands, this book poses the question of visual politics to psychoanalysis. It also explores the relevance of the many psychoanalyses to the study of art and other images in post-traumatic conditions. Visual Politics of Psychoanalysis builds on maverick art historian Aby Warburg's project of combining social, cultural, anthropological and psychological analyses of the image in order to track the undercurrents of cultural violence in the representational repertoire of Western modernity. In this innovative collection, a distinguished group of international authors dare to think psychoanalytically about the legacies of political violence and suffering in relation to post-traumatic cultures worldwide. Drawing on post-colonial and feminist theory, they analyse the image and the aesthetic in conditions of historical trauma from enslavement and colonisation to the Irish Famine, from Denmark's national trauma about migrants and cartoons to collective shock after 9/11, from individual traumas of loss registered in allegory to newsreels and documentaries on suicide bombing in Israel/Palestine, from Kristeva's novels to Kathryn Bigelow's cinema.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Series Editor's Preface: New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts Griselda Pollock Introduction: Visual Politics and Psychoanalyses Griselda Pollock I National Wounds and Contested Memory 1 Contest-Nation: Denmark- A PSTD-Struck Nation Contesting Analysis Henrik Ole Holm 2 Miniature Objects of Cultural Covenant: Transition and Translation in British North America Kristin Huneault 3 The Irish 'Holocaust" and the Commemoration of Famine Emily FitzGerald II Trauma and Allegory 4 Courbet's Trauerspiel: Trouble with Women in the Studio Jennifer Tennant Jackson 5 Astonishing Marine Living: Ellen Gallagher at the Freud Museum Suzanna Chan III Fear and Surveillance 6 Transfixed: The Expression of Emotion as a History of Images Sharon Sliwinski 7 Dan Graham, Reality Television and the Society of Surveillance Paula Carabell IV Violence and Sexual Difference 8 Towards an Iconomy of Violence: Julia Kristeva in the Between of Ethics and Politics Maria Margaroni 9 From Horrorism to Compassion: Re-facing Medusan Otherness in dialogue with Adriana Cavarero and Bracha Ettinger Griselda Pollock 10 Encountering Blue Steel: Changing Tempers in Cinema Nicholas Chare Contributors' Biographies Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BB15261166
• ISBN:
  • 9781780763156
  • 9781780763163
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 263 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 704.9493036
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Violence in art
  • LCSH : Art -- Political aspects
  • LCSH : Psychoanalysis and art
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA84267299