Introduction -- Symptoms and hysteria -- Per (os)cillation -- Of female bondage -- Waiving the phallus -- The truth on assault (with Mark Cousins) -- The art of analysis: Mary Kelly's Interim and the discourse of the analyst -- 'Father, can't you see I'm filming?' -- The violence of paint -- The three (dis)graces -- The bald truth -- Operation Orlan
Summary
There has long been a politics around the way in which women are represented, with objection not so much to specific images as to a regime of looking which places the represented woman in a particular relationship to the spectator's gaze. Artists have sometimes avoided the representation of women altogether, but they are now producing images which challenge the regime. How do these images succeed in their challenge? The Emptiness of the Image offers a psychoanalytic answer. Parveen Adams argues that, despite flaws in some of the details of its arguments, psychoanalytic theory retains an
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-169) and index
