[ebooks] History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke at Arts-Photography

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Interest in the relationship between psychoanalysis and art - and other disciplines - is growing. In his new book Reflections on the Aesthetic: Psychoanalysis and the uncanny; Gregorio Kohon examines and reflects upon psychoanalytic understandings of estrangement; the Freudian notions of the uncanny and Nachtrauml;glichkeit; exploring how these are evoked in works of literature and art; and are present in our response to such works. Kohon provides close readings of and insights into the works of Franz Kafka; Jorge Luis Borges; Louise Bourgeois; Juan Muntilde;oz; Anish Kapoor; Richard Serra; Edvard Munch; Kurt Schwitters; amongst others; the book also includes a chapter on the Warsaw Ghetto Monument and the counter-monument aesthetic movement in post-war Germany. Kohon shows how some works of art and literature represent something that otherwise eludes representation; and how psychoanalysis and the aesthetic share the task of making a representation of the unrepresentable. Reflections on the Aesthetic is not an exercise in "applied" psychoanalysis; psychoanalysis and art are considered by the author in their own terms; allowing a new understanding of the aesthetic to emerge. Kohonrsquo;s book makes compelling reading for psychoanalysts; psychotherapists; art therapists; literary and art critics; academics; students and all those interested in the matter of the aesthetic.