Mary Bergstein (Author), Mari Ruti (Series Editor), Esther Rashkin (Series Editor), Peter L. Rudnytsky (Series Editor).
“Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna 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.'
Mary 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.
Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna 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.”
Paperback, 240 pages — Bloomsbury Press — March 2024— $26.95. Available at Bloomsbury.