For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience
Book Details
- Publisher : Bloomsbury
- Published : August 2020
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 200
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 97854
- ISBN 13 : 9781501367588
- ISBN 10 : 1501367587
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For Want of Ambiguity investigates how the dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience can shed light on the transformational capacity of contemporary art.
Through neuroscienfitic and psychoanalytic exploration of the work of Diamante Faraldo, Ai Weiwei, Ida Barbarigo, Xavier Le Roy, Bill T. Jones, Cindy Sherman, Francis Bacon, Agnes Martin, and others, For Want of Ambiguity offers a new perspective on how insight is achieved and on how art opens us up to new ways of being.
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If the purpose of learning is to better predict how to meet your needs in the world, then what is the purpose of art? This fascinating book explores how the brain deals with things that are inherently ambiguous and unpredictable, and therefore cannot be mastered through learning.
Interestingly, as this book reveals, such things abound in aesthetic experience.
Mark Solms, Professor and Director of Neuropsychology, Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Foreword by Semir Zeki
Acknowledgments
Introduction: (Re) Making Meaning
1. Shaping Private Demons
2. A Play of Selves: Art as Play
3. Narrating the Self
4. Mapping: The Need for Borders
5. The Fluidity of Time and Space in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience
6. Resisting Representation
Conclusion: Order and Chaos or Framing Ambiguity
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
About the Author(s)
Ludovica Lumer is a psychoanalyst with a private practice in New York City, USA. She earned her PhD from University College London, UK, where she worked in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology conducting research in the field of neuroaesthetics on the relationship between visual perception and artistic representation.
Lois Oppenheim is University Distinguished Scholar, Professor of French, and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Montclair State University where she teaches courses in both literature and applied psychoanalysis. She is Scholar Associate Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and Honorary Member of the William Alanson White Society.
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