Events and Seminars
| Event | : | Portraits of the Insane: Theodore Gericault and the Subject of Psychotherapy - Author's Talk and Book Launch |
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| Venue | : | The Freud Museum, London |
| Date | : | 06/10/2016 |
| Duration | : | 1 day |
| Extra Info | : | Lecture: 7pm, drinks reception: 8-9pm Analytic psychotherapist and art historian, Robert Snell joins us to discuss his forthcoming book, Portraits of the Insane: Théodore Géricault and the Subject of Psychotherapy (Karnac 2016). Timed shortly after the 225th anniversary of Théodore Géricault's birth, the lecture is followed by a drinks reception marking the launch of the publication. In the gloomy aftermath of the 1789 Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, the French painter Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) made a series of portraits of patients in an asylum or clinic. The paintings are unprecedented: they show people designated as insane as ordinary, unique individuals. They point to a new, essentially democratic conception of the human being, sane or mad, as available for relationship and communication: a ‘therapeutic subject’. Made during a period of massive social, cultural, and economic transformation, they register a critical moment in the history of subjectivity, and connect us to some living roots of psychoanalysis.They challenge us profoundly, in our own conflicted era, to find responses in ourselves to the stranger in our midst. |
| Organised By | : | The Freud Museum |
| Web Link | : | http://www.freud.org.uk/events/76553/-portraits-of-the-insane-theodore-gericault-and-the-subject-of-psychotherapy-/ |