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Eyes, Mind and Vision: Visual Realities and Metaphors in Psychoanalysis

Editor : Salman Akhtar, Editor : Nina Savelle-Rocklin

Reviews and Endorsements

From the mother’s eye to the analyst’s eye, this wonderful volume explores the developmental, cultural, and clinical aspects of seeing, visualizing, and being seen. Salman Akhtar and Nina Savelle-Rocklin have brought together a distinguished group of contributors who provide multidimensional – literal, metaphorical, scientific, and artistic – perspectives on vision that will be truly mind expanding for all psychotherapists and psychoanalysts.
Charles P. Fisher, MD, Associate Director, Science Department, American Psychoanalytic Association, co-editor of The Rangell Reader

Salman Akhtar and Nina Savelle-Rocklin have done it again! In this co-edited new collection of accessibly written contributions from various parts of the world, we are invited to re-view developmental, symbolic, cultural and clinical aspects of seeing. Drawing on Freud, Winnicott, Mahler, and others, the psychopathology of vision is described and expanded. Seeing is located in the context of object relations. Aspects of the superego are linked to the inner eye, e.g., in watching and being watched. The authors discuss how much we blind ourselves to personal and broader, dangerous realities, such as global warming and nuclear threats. The book truly gathers together and widens the field of “psychoanalytic ophthalmology” and is highly relevant to medical practitioners and those in the mental health field.
Jennifer Davids, Fellow BPaS, IPA, Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychoanalyst, author of The Nursery Age Child

In the image-driven culture of the twenty-first century where identities and ideologies are often shaped by what one sees and what one is made to see, this book places a revealing psychoanalytic lens on visual realities and imaginations. It helps us reflect upon not only what all the images we are bombarded with reveal but also, more importantly, what they conceal from our inner selves.
Sergio Lewkowicz, MD, Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Society of Porto Alegre, co-editor of On Freud’s Mourning and Melancholia