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Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2006
History of Art 350: Art and Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Lacan
Steven Z. Levine <slevine@brynmawr.edu>

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Jacques Lacan (1901-81)

Seminar Schedule

September 4, 2006 Introduction: Freudian Links

September 11, 2006 Freud and Leonardo

Leonardo Da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood by Sigmund Freud (1910), translated by James Strachey.

The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis: First and Second Lectures by Sigmund Freud (1910), translated by Harry W. Chase.

Introducing Psychoanalysis by Ivan Ward (2000).

Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Reappraisal by Elizabeth Wright (1984; 2nd ed. 1998), Chapters 1-5.

Leonardo
St. Anne with Virgin and Child
1508-10

Leonardo
Mona Lisa
1503-07

Marcel Duchamp
L.H.O.O.Q.
1919

Leonardo
St. John the Baptist
1513-16

September 18, 2006 Leonardo after Freud

Leonardo in the Consulting Room (in Editorial)
The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 41, No. 237. (Dec., 1922), pp. 255-256.

Leonardo in the Consulting Room (in Letters)
Eric MacLagan, The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 42, No. 238. (Jan., 1923), pp. 54+57-58.

A Criticism of Freud's Leonardo
Raymond Stites, College Art Journal, Vol. 7, No. 4. (Summer, 1948), pp. 257-267.

More on Freud's Leonardo (in Letters to the Editor)
Raymond S. Stites, College Art Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1. (Autumn, 1948), p. 40.

Leonardo and Freud: An Art-Historical Study
Meyer Schapiro, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 17, No. 2. (Apr., 1956), pp. 147-178.

Freud's Psychohistory of Leonardo da Vinci: A Matter of Being Right or Left
P. G. Aaron; Robert G. Clouse, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 13, No. 1. (Summer, 1982), pp. 1-16.

Writing Leonardo Backwards
Michael Ann Holly, New Literary History, Vol. 23, No. 1, Versions of Otherness. (Winter, 1992), pp. 173-211.

Freud's Leonardo: A Discussion of Recent Psychoanalytic Theories
Klaus Herding, American Imago - Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2000, pp. 339-368.

Additional bibliography

The Aesthetics of Freud: A Study in Psychoanalysis and Art by Jack J. Spector (1973)

Art and Psyche: A Study in Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics by Ellen Handler Spitz (1985)

Leonardo, Psychoanalysis & Art History: A Critical Study of Psychobiographical Approaches to Leonardo Da Vinci by Bradley I. Collins (1997)

Freud, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Vulture's Tail: A Refreshing Look at Leonardo's Sexuality by Wayne V. Andersen (2001)

September 25, 2006 Freud, Moses, and Michelangelo

The Moses of Michelangelo (1914), in Writings on Art and Literature by Sigmund Freud, foreword by Heil Hertz (1997)

                Photograph of Freud at home
                in Vienna in 1911 with
                Michelangelo's Dying Slave
                for the tomb of Poe Julius II

Michelangelo's unfinished tomb

for Pope Julius 1I, 1505-45
San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome

Freud's sketch of Moses

>>Michelangelo, Moses, 1515

October 2, 2006 Michelangelo after Freud

Freud, Structuralism, and "The Moses of Michelangelo"
Gerald L. Bruns, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 33, No. 1. (Autumn, 1974), pp. 13-18.

Freud and the Visual
Peter Benson, Representations, No. 45. (Winter, 1994), pp. 101-116.

Recasting Moses: Narrative and Drama in the Dumbshow of Freud's "The Moses of Michelangelo"
David Wagenknecht, American Imago - Volume 52, Number 4, Winter 1995, pp. 439-461.

Sacred Objects/Illusory Idols: The Fake in Freud's "The Moses of Michelangelo"
Aviva Briefel, American Imago - Volume 60, Number 1, Spring 2003, pp. 21-40.

Observations from the Refuse-Heap: Freud, Michelangelo's Moses, and Psychoanalysis
Malcolm Macmillan and Peter J. Swales, American Imago - Volume 60, Number 1, Spring 2003, pp. 41-104.

Additional bibliography

Michelangelo: A Psychoanalytic Study of His Life and Images by Robert S. Liebert (1987)

Freud`s Moses : Judaism Terminable and Interminable by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1993)

October 9, 2006 Introduction: Lacanian Links

October 23, 2006 Lacan, Dalí, and the Surrealist Milieu in Paris

Introducing Lacan by Darian Leader (3rd ed. 2006).

Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Reappraisal by Elizabeth Wright (1984; 2nd ed. 1998), Chapters 6-10.

Motives of Paranoiac Crime: The Crime of the Papin Sisters, from Le Minotaure, 1933: translated by Jon Anderson in Critical Texts, vol.5, 3, 1988.

Dalí's Paranoiac-Critical Method
Grove Art Online

Dalí’s Fascism; Lacan’s Paranoia
R.A. Greely, Art History, Volume 24, Number 4, September 2001, pp. 465-492.

Freud by Dalí, 1938

Photograph by Brassaï, 1944
Standing: Lacan, Picasso, Beauvoir, Brassaï
Seated: Sartre, Camus, Leiris

Lacan and Dalí in New York City, 1975

October 30, 2006 The Mirror Stage

The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience (1949; first version 1936), in Ecrits: A Selection, translated by Bruce Fink (2002).

Some Reflections on the Ego, read by Lacan to the British Psycho-Analytical Society, May 2, 1951, published in International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 1953, volume 34, pp. 11-17.

Otto van Veen and his Family, 1584 (Notice the little girl looking at her reflection in the mirror)

Anonymous 1950s photograph illustrative of Psychoanalysis at ArtStor

J. A. Pajou and his family, 1802

Julie, Daughter of E. Vigée-Lebrun, 1786

Antoinette Hébert by J. F. Millet, 1845

Mother and Child by Mary Cassatt, 1905

November 6, 2006 The Seminar in the 1950s

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book I : Freud's Papers on Technique 1953-1954, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller (1975), translated by John Forrester (1988).

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book II : The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954-1955, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller (1978), translated by Sylvana Tomaselli (1988).

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book III: The Psychoses 1955-1956, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller (1981), translated by Russell Grigg (1993).

Seminar on "The Purloined Letter" (1955)
Yale French Studies, No. 48, French Freud: Structural Studies in Psychoanalysis. (1972), pp. 39-72.

The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious (1957)
Yale French Studies, No. 36/37, Structuralism. (1966), pp. 112-147.

Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in Hamlet (1959)
Yale French Studies, No. 55/56, Literature and Psychoanalysis. The Question of Reading: Otherwise. (1977), pp. 11-52.


Graph of Desire 1 From the Signifier to the Subject	Graph of Desire 2 From the Signifier to the Voice	Graph of Desire 3 Che vuoi? What does the Other want of me?	Graph of Desire 4 From Jouissance to Castration

November 13, 2006 The Seminar in the 1960s (1)

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VII : The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller (1986), translated by Dennis Porter (1992). See The Thing.

Depression and reparation as themes in Melanie Klein's analysis of the painter Ruth Weber
Ole Andkjær Olsen, The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review, Volume 27, Number 1, 2004, pp. 34-42.

Kant with Sade (1962)
October, Vol. 51. (Winter, 1989), pp. 55-75.

November 20, 2006 The Seminar in the 1960s (2)

Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar (1963)
October, Vol. 40, Television. (Spring, 1987), pp. 81-95.

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book XI : The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis 1964, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller (1973), translated by Alan Sheridan (1977). See The Gaze.

Caravaggio, The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1603

Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors, 1533

<<Hollow-bone

Anamorphic skull

November 27, 2005 The Seminar in the 1970s

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book XX: Encore: On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge 1972-73, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller (1975), translated by Bruce Fink (1998).

Bernini, Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria Vittoria, Rome, 1647-52
The Ecstacy of Saint Teresa

The Formulas of Sexuation (Seminar XX)
The Woman Does Not Exist!

Television (1974)
October, Vol. 40, Television (see the video) (Spring, 1987), pp. 6-50.

François Rouan, Cassone, 1982

December 4, 11, 2006 Student Presentations