Psychoanalysis is Art and Culture is a 15 credit elective course delivered to Postgraduate Students at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. This blog is a continuation of the seminar series.
Psychoanalytic ideas have particular relevance outside of the consulting room, mainly the Art School and the wider Academia, the art gallery, and everyday spaces where we interact with objects. The discipline has a particular way of thinking about problems, the self and society. Since its inception in the late 19th Century, psychoanalysis has had an impact on how we make, view and think about art, space, cultural artefacts and their relation to the self and society. This, together with received ideas bearing on cultural, artistic and psychoanalytic practices, is what will be explored in this course.
This course aims at introducing students to psychoanalytic thinking in all its social and cultural dimensions, including their roles as creators, viewers and commentators of art and culture. This particular relational approach to objects, events and things, stems directly from the clinical setting, with which artists, designers, architects and theorists may make parallels with in terms of working processes.
For information on how to follow this course, please contact Laura Gonzalez, Research Lecturer, by email (l.gonzalez@gsa.ac.uk). Click here for information on Glasgow School of Art’s Postgraduate programmes
