Fashion and Psychoanalysis: Styling the Self (International Library of Cultural Studies) - Softcover

Alison Bancroft

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780760043 ISBN 13: 9781780760049

Publisher: I.B.Tauris, 2012

Synopsis

In this innovative new book, Alison Bancroft re-examines significant moments in twentieth century fashion history through the focal lens of psychoanalytic theory. Her discussion centers on studies of fashion photography, haute couture, queer dressing, and fashion/art in an attempt to shed new light on these key issues. According to Bancroft, problems of subjectivity are played out through fashion, in the public arena, and not just in the dark, unknowable unconscious mind. The question of what can be said, and what can only be experienced, and how these two issues may be reconciled, become questions that fashion addresses on an almost daily basis. By interpreting fashion within a psychoanalytic frame, Bancroft illustrates how fashion articulates some of the essential, and sometimes frightening, truths about the body, femininity, and the self.

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Review

'if you are curious about what fashion as art and corporeal style might express about fundamental Freudian and Lacanian concepts like identification, femininity, and the unconscious, you will be delighted and edified.' Anna Fishzon, New Books in Critical Theory, 7;

About the Author

Alison Bancroft is a writer and cultural critic. She specialises in interdisciplinary approaches to modern and contemporary art and visual culture, and is committed to working across all media and contexts. Her research interests include visual culture and theory, psychoanalytic thought, and sexualities. She was awarded her PhD by the University of London in 2010. This is her first book.

Edition details

• Publisher: I.B.Tauris
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1780760043
• ISBN 13: 9781780760049
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256