Art History and Psychoanalysis: Workshop 1

Interdisciplinary crossovers between art history and psychoanalysis
have a long, rich and productive history. Since Freud, many analysts
have incorporated the study of visual art into their work, and art
historians and theorists frequently incorporate concepts, methods and
frameworks from psychoanalysis into theirs. However, while there can
be no doubt that these exchanges have been incredibly fruitful, they
also throw up significant methodological issues. What happens when
ideas migrate from the analytic context into an artistic one and back
again? What differences are there between the analytic situation and
the artistic context? How can we incorporate modes of artistic
experience into psychoanalytic frameworks? Do psychoanalytic concepts
sometimes get lost in translation?

This is the first in a series of three workshops which will address
these issues. Although they are organised around speakers, the
workshops will primarily be an opportunity for group discussions
around methodological questions raised by our contributors. As well as
a keynote speech, each session will include four short papers (c. 15
minutes), each followed by a longer discussion amongst the rest of the
group (c. 40 minutes). We are especially keen on finding a mixture of
participants from backgrounds in art and art history, as well as
psychoanalysis and related fields, to make sure that these are
genuinely interdisciplinary events.

PROGRAMME:

2pm - Keynote
Professor Margaret Iversen (School of Philosophy and Art History,
University of Essex) - Carving, Modelling, Casting

3.10pm - Session 2
Andrés Montenegro (School of Philosophy and Art History, University of
Essex) - "Displacements of the Uncanny"

Rosa Nogués (CRMEP, Kingston University) - "The Body of Sexuation:
Feminist Art Practice"

4.40pm - Session 3
Imogen Wiltshire (University of Birmingham) "Painting as
Psychotherapy: The Crossover Between Art and Psychoanalysis at Arthur
Segal's Painting School for Professionals and Non-Professionals
(1937-1944)"

Iain Matheson (Independent Researcher) - "William Burroughs, un hombre
invisible: the meta-psychology of l'ecriture in a speculative case of
Bionian psychosis"

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