Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography, and the History of Art
Book Details
- Publisher : Cornell U.P.
- Published : 2010
- Cover : Hardback
- Pages : 344
- Category :
Culture and Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 29797
- ISBN 13 : 9780801448195
- ISBN 10 : 0801448190
Reviews and Endorsements
'Mirrors of Memory is an extraordinary interdisciplinary book, bringing together psychoanalysis, Freud's intellectual and emotional biography, the history of photography and its intellectual and popular reception, and the historiography of art. Mary Bergstein explores both Freud's work and the history of photography in depth and detail, with all their complexities and contradictions. Deeply scholarly and imaginatively researched, each chapter is a gem, and each page is thoroughly engrossing. In exploring all dimensions of Freud's visual imagination, it literally and figuratively opened my eyes to images and possibilities of which I had only been dimly aware.'
- Bennett Simon, MD, Harvard Medical School (Cambridge Health Alliance), Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and author of Mind and Madness in Ancient Greece: The Classical Roots of Modern Psychiatry