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Fashion and Psychoanalysis Styling the Self 1st Edition

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Fashion and Psychoanalysis Styling the Self 1st Edition

Author(s)

Alison Bancroft

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9780857721280, 9781350145061, 9781780760049, 9781780760032

Publisher

I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd

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PDF and EPUB

Description

In this innovative new book, Alison Bancroft re-examines significant moments in twentieth century fashion history through the focal lens of psychoanalytic theory. Her discussion centres on studies of fashion photography, haute couture, queer dressing, and fashion/art in an attempt to shed new light on these key issues. According to Bancroft, problems of subjectivity are played out through fashion, in the public arena, and not just in the dark, unknowable unconscious mind. The question of what can be said, and what can only be experienced, and how these two issues may be reconciled, become questions that fashion addresses on an almost daily basis. By interpreting fashion within a psychoanalytic frame, Bancroft illustrates how fashion articulates some of the essential, and sometimes frightening, truths about the body, femininity and the self.

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Fashion and Psychoanalysis Styling the Self 1st Edition

SKU: 9780857731128

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Full Title

Fashion and Psychoanalysis Styling the Self 1st Edition

Author(s)

Alison Bancroft

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9780857731128, 9781350145061

Publisher

I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

There is an increasing trend within both the study of visual culture and fashion itself to restore fashion to an aesthetic role – one that moves beyond its commercial success as a global industry and places fashion within a nexus of art, the body, and femininity. This emphasis aims to separate fashion from mere clothing, and illustrate its cultural power as an integral aspect of modern life. In this innovative new book, Alison Bancroft re-examines significant moments in twentieth-century fashion history through the focal lens of psychoanalytic theory. Her discussion centres on studies of fashion photography, haute couture, queer dressing, and fashion/art in an attempt to shed new light on these key issues. According to Bancroft, problems of subjectivity are played out through fashion, in the public arena, and not just in the dark, unknowable unconscious mind. The question of what can be said, and what can only be experienced, and how these two issues may be reconciled, become questions that fashion addresses on an almost daily basis. Psychoanalysis has been profoundly influential in the arts, thanks to its capacity to add layers of meaning to things that, without it, would remain obtuse and intractable. It has proved crucial to the development of film studies, art theory and literary criticism. What it has not yet been brought into dialogue with in great depth is fashion. By interpreting fashion within a psychoanalytic frame, Bancroft illustrates how fashion articulates some of the essential, and sometimes frightening, truths about the body, femininity and the self.