Shawn Michelle Smith is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the author of
Sharon Sliwinski is Associate Professor of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario and author of
Shawn Michelle Smith is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the author of
Sharon Sliwinski is Associate Professor of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario and author of
Mignon Nixon appraises a wide variety of representations of the psychoanalytic situation in her essay “On the Couch,” first published in the journal October in 2005. The essay both gathers and interrogates a suite of visual projects that have sought to make the clinical scene visible in film, photography, and conceptual art. In so doing, Nixon draws a link between the psychoanalytic and the visual frame. By focusing on the couch, Nixon offers a reconsideration of the notion of transference for both psychoanalytic theory and aesthetics.
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