FA 453 Art of the Mind (Fall: 3)
How can art be interpreted as an expression of the mind, psychoanalytically?
The focus of this seminar is on late nineteenth century artists such as,
but not limited to, Manet, Gauguin, Cézanne, and Van Gogh, and on those
psychoanalytic ideas that have been, and have yet to be applied to art.
We will read Freud, Ernst Kris and Donald Winnicott, and presumably, the
most recent ideas in psychoanalysis. Our particular concern is the lack
of attention paid, as Meyer Schapiro and others have noted, to the historic,
iconographic and stylistic context of artistic expression as the means of
psychoanalytic interpretation.
Katherine Nahum
Last Updated: 15-DEC-08