On Sewing Machines and Umbrellas

On Sewing Machines and Umbrellas: The Experience of Art and Psychoanalysis is a fascinating essay that explores the intersections, tensions, and possibilities between art and psychoanalysis. With the eye of an art historian, the author reflects on how artists, viewers, and works of art are traversed by unconscious, historical, and emotional processes. From Freud to Lacan, from aesthetics to art history, this book invites us to consider creation and the aesthetic experience with new tools and old questions.Ideal for readers interested in art and its critical history, psychology applied to the arts and creative processes, as well as cultural interpretation.It's not possible to seat Mona Lisa on the couch, but it is possible to understand the psychology of creation beyond Freud and the attempts of surrealism.Includes a special section on the card game designed by the surrealist group in 1941.