Surrealism and Psychoanalysis in Grace Pailthorpe's Life and Work
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Surrealism and Psychoanalysis in Grace Pailthorpe's Life and Work

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Surrealism and Psychoanalysis in Grace Pailthorpe's Life and Work

About this book

This book outlines the life and intellectual thought of the English surrealist artist and psychoanalyst, Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883–1971). It gathers her published and unpublished writings, providing an in-depth study of the importance of Surrealism in her work and legacy.

Pailthorpe's theoretical understanding of the psyche informed her approach to art, setting her work apart from other Surrealist artists by unifying artistic, scientific, and therapeutic aims. Pailthorpe considered Surrealism to be a method of investigation into unconscious mental life and believed that it was essential that the repressed part of our minds should find expression. Her theories were influenced by personal and professional experiences such as her work with female offenders, her psychoanalytic training, and her research project with Reuben Mednikoff. By bringing her artistic and theoretical work to light, Montanaro and Stefana reassert Pailthorpe's significance to the histories of both psychoanalysis and Surrealism, rendering the cross-disciplinary relevance of her work accessible to a contemporary audience.

This book is a rich resource for scholars and students interested in psychoanalysis and art history and provides an invaluable case study for the continuing significance of visual artistic practices to clinical work.

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Yes, you can access Surrealism and Psychoanalysis in Grace Pailthorpe's Life and Work by Lee Ann Montanaro,Alberto Stefana in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & Psychoanalysis. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781032731643
eBook ISBN
9781040050835

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Foreword by Bob Hinshelwood
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Early life
  12. 2 Reuben Mednikoff
  13. 3 The study of female offenders and training in psychoanalysis
  14. 4 Further (ethnocultural-oriented) research in Africa
  15. 5 The influences of psychoanalysis and psychiatry on Surrealism
  16. 6 The relationship between psychoanalysis and art
  17. 7 Meeting Reuben Mednikoff and the start of their research project
  18. 8 The ‘Birth Trauma’ period
  19. 9 The Scientific Aspect of Surrealism
  20. 10 The war years (1938–40)
  21. 11 The couple's move to North America
  22. 12 Pailthorpe and Mednikoff's return to England
  23. 13 Pailthorpe's final years
  24. Afterword by Glenn Gossling
  25. References
  26. Index