Visual Politics of Psychoanalysis: Art and the Image in Post-Traumatic Cultures (New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts) - Softcover

Griselda Pollock

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780763166 ISBN 13: 9781780763163

Publisher: I.B.Tauris, 2013

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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About the Author:

Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds. Her books include Vision and Difference (1988/2003), Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum (2007) and After-affects / After- Image: Trauma and Aesthetic Transformation (2013). She is series editor of New Encounters, editor of Conceptual Odysseys (2007) and co-editor with Antony Bryant of Digital and Other Virtualities (2010), as well as two other volumes, all for I.B.Tauris. With Max Silverman she is series editor of Concentrationary Memory for I.B.Tauris which includes Concentrationary Memories (2013), while Concentrationary Imaginaries is forthcoming.

About this edition

• Publisher: I.B.Tauris
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1780763166
• ISBN 13: 9781780763163
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Griselda Pollock