Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art

Vanessa Sinclair, PsyD, is a psychoanalyst based in Stockholm. Dr Sinclair is the author of Switching Mirrors (2016), editor of Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (2019), and co-editor of On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (2018) with Dr Manya Steinkoler.

• Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Part I - Sowing Seeds/Setting the Stage; Chapter 1: A Cut in Time: The Advent of Photography; Chapter 2: Reimagining the Frame: The Birth of Modern Art; Part II - Unleashing the Unconscious; Chapter 3: The Art of Noise; Chapter 4: Psychoanalysis and Dada; Chapter 5: Collage, Photomontage and Assemblage; Chapter 6: Disrupting the Expected: Marcel Duchamp; Part III - Revolution of Mind; Chapter 7: Surrealism/Acéphale; Chapter 8: Double-bind: Cutting the Bonds of Gender; Chapter 9: The Cutting Edge: Avant-garde and Experimental Cinema; Chapter 10: The Cut-up Method of the Beats; Part IV - When Art Becomes Life (and Death); Chapter 11: Acting Out: Pop, Street and Performance Art; Chapter 12: Cut from the Collective: Alternative Communities; Chapter 13: Body Modification, Polymorphous Perversity and Pandrogeny; Chapter 14: Technology, Morbidity, Death and the Unexpected; Index