{"product_id":"visual-culture-in-freuds-vienna-science-eros-and-the-psychoanalytic-imagination","title":"Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna: Science, Eros, and the Psychoanalytic Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Mary Bergstein\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eVisual Cultures in Freud's Vienna\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e provides for the first time a serious and comprehensive account of seeing in Freud's Vienna. With the acumen of a brilliant historian of photography and the visual arts, Bergstein meticulously reconstructs the visual ambience of \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003efin-de-siècle\u003c\/span\u003e Austria, exposing many of the subliminal patterns of seeing in Freud's world. A necessary read for those engaged in understanding how our visual world limits and expands our understanding of psychic processes.” ―\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSander Gilman, \u003cem\u003eDistinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Director, Program of Psychoanalysis, Emory University, USA \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eVisual Culture in Freud's Vienna\u003c\/em\u003e shows how photography and film in turn-of-the-century Vienna (the birthplace of psychoanalysis) not only reflected modernist ideas already in force, but helped to bring into being what might be referred to as a “psychoanalytic imagination.” \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMary Bergstein demonstrates that visual images not only illustrated, but also engendered ways of seeing social, psychological, and scientific ideas during a formative time in the creation and development of psychoanalysis and the modern age. Indeed, she argues that visual culture initiated significant aspects of psychoanalytic thought.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eVisual Culture in Freud's Vienna\u003c\/em\u003e examines a variety of visual materials and texts, ranging from scientific illustrations to popular \"low culture\" and even forms of erotica, including film. Attention is also given to women's dresses and shoes in a social context and as they are represented in photography and circulated as fetish objects.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBergstein maintains a commitment to women's history and feminist inquiry throughout, particularly in her final chapter, which is devoted to the representations of women in the erotic photography and film. Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna is well illustrated with images drawn from the sources discussed and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of modernism and psychoanalysis.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e240 pages | 68 color and black-and-white images\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBloomsbury Academic, 2024\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 9798765111956 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSigmund Freud, Viennese Culture\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46673626267816,"sku":"9798765111956","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/files\/Bergstein_Visual-Culture-in-Freuds-Vienna.jpg?v=1707157239","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/visual-culture-in-freuds-vienna-science-eros-and-the-psychoanalytic-imagination","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}