Sigmund Freud’s discovery of psychoanalysis explores links between Freud’s development of his thinking and theory and his personal emotional journey. It follows his early career as a medical student, researcher and neurologist, and then as a psychotherapist, to focus on the critical period 1895-1900. During these years Freud submitted himself to the process that has become known as his ‘self-analysis’, and developed the core of his psychoanalytic theory. Drawing on Freud’s letters to his friend and confidant Wilhelm Fliess, and on selected psychoanalytic writings in particular his ‘dream of Irma’s injection’, Paul Schimmel formulates psychoanalytic dimensions to the biographical ‘facts’ of Freud’s life. In 1900 Freud wrote that he was ‘not a thinker’ but ‘a conquistador’. In reality he was both, and was engaged in a lifelong emotional struggle to bring these contradictory sides of his personality into relationship. His psychoanalytic discoveries are conceptualized in the context of his need to achieve integration within his psyche, and in particular to forge a more creative collaboration between ‘conquistador’ and ‘thinker’. Sigmund Freud’s discovery of psychoanalysis will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, academics and teachers of psychoanalysis, and to all serious students of the mind.

An exploration of the artist's work from 1953 to 1964 includes the seventy combinations of paint and found objects featured in the exhibition, along with coverage of an additional one hundred pieces and four essays by Rauschenberg scholars.

Product Description: Ecstasy acts as an intersection in which structures of human consciousness meet a range of contemporary art practices. Each work in Ecstasy, which accompanies an exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, enacts its own particular intervention into human consciousness -- surprising us, questioning familiar realities, and suggesting alternative ways of ordering experience -- through installation, painting, sculpture, and new media...read more

Product Description: The rise of performance art, and its merging with more traditional forms like painting and sculpture, is the great revolution of postwar art. Its links to theater, photography, music, dance, politics, and popular culture have made it especially appealing to contemporary artists in remote areas; more than any other movement in recent art, performance has found a place throughout the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Selected as the United States representative to the 2001 Venice Biennale, the sculptor and installation artist Robert Gober has, thanks to several major museum exhibitions in recent years, established himself as perhaps the most important artist of his generation, thanks to his symbolically charged re-creations of everyday objects that he makes into installations that question the ideals and values of childhood, family, home, and religion...read more

Product Description: This is the first comprehensive survey of paintings by Lari Pittman (b. 1952), a Los Angeles artist believed by many to be one of the most significant American painters today. Since his first solo exhibition, in Los Angeles in 1982, his art has been widely exhibited in the U...read more

Product Description: Research into the structure and functions of proteins, DNA and RNA as well as on genomic information has opened up a new area in the study of biological evolution and thus on our understanding of life. During the last two decades, several important and unexpected findings in molecular biology including the existence of intervening sequences (introns) and the enzymatic function of RNA (ribozymes), have been revealed...read more

Product Description: Provocative, sociologically attuned, at times outrageous, the work of the eight sculptors profiled in this catalogue goes beyond such easy labels as "conceptual", "New Objector", "Neo-Geo"; Annette Lemieux evokes history with a helmet or a vintage typewriter; her assemblages seem ghostlike fragments of a forgotten order...read more

Product Description: Soft cover book titled THE FIGURATIVE FIFTIES: New York Figurative Expressionism. With essays by Klaus Kertess, Carter Ratcliff and others. Published by Newport Harbor Art Museum to accompany a 1988 exhibition. See my photographs (6) of this book on main listing page...read more