Sculpture And Psychoanalysis

Just What Do Psychoanalysis And Modern Sculpture Have To Do With One Another? The Present Collection Of Essays, Unique In Its Field, Shows How Key Metaphors Of Freudian And Kleinian Psychoanalysis - Splitting, Projection, Sublimation, Identification, The Schizoid And Reparative Mechanisms - As Well As Lacans Concepts Of The Stade Du Mirroir And The Objet Petit A, Can Be Fruitfully Applied To A Range Of Modern Three-dimensional Art, From Surrealism To The Present Day. As These Essays Show, Figures Such As Barbara Hepworth, Eva Hesse, Jean-jacques Lebel, Robert Morris, Donald Judd, Gilbert And George, Rebecca Horn And Others Have Often Approached The Material Of Sculpture With Something Like These Mechanisms In Mind.