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Steven Z. Levine
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2008 by I.B.Tauris
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Contents
Acknowledgements
vii
List of illustrations
ix
Foreword: Why Lacon?
xi
Chapter 1.
The Do Vinci Code according to Freud
Chapter 2.
The Do Vinci Code according to Lacan
Chapter 3.
The Thing from another world
Chapter 4.
The lost object
Chapter 5.
What is a picture?
Chapter 6.
Representative of representation
Chapter 7.
Am I a woman or a man?
Afterword: Enjoy!
Suggested reading Index
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Selected bibliography
31
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Acknowledgements
I am grateful to Susan Lawson for inviting me to write this book
and for improving it with her keen e ditorial eye . I also want to thank my students and colleagues in the dep artment of History of Art and the C enter for Visual C ulture at B ryn Mawr College for tolerating my translation of their scholarship and convers ation into the Lacanian terms of the Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real. Notable among them are David C ast, C hristiane Hertel , Homay King, K. Malcolm Richards, Lis a Saltzman and Isabelle Wallace, a s well as recent undergraduate and graduate seminar students OIl self portraiture and p sychoanalysis . The art historians Benjamin Bins tock, Bra dford C ollin s , Keith Moxey and Jack Spector gave me the opportunity to present or publish some of my thoughts on art and Lacan, as did the p sychoanalysts Heather C raige and D avid S charff, and members of the Phil adelphia Psychoanalytic Center. Patricia Gherovici and Jean Michel Rabate introduce d me to Philadelphia's vibrant Lacanian community. And in the background of many of my sentences lies the phenomenology of Michael Fried. My wife Susan Levine, practitioner of psychoanalysis , and my daughter Madeleine Levine , researcher in social psychology, were indispensable in the completion of this project. My parents Natalie and Reevan Levine opened the space of possibility, and it is in their name and with love that I dedicate this book.
List of illustrations
Figure 1. Marcel Duchamp, L. H. o. o. Q. , 1919 (1930 replica), p rivate collection. Photo credit: C ameraphoto Arte, Veni ce/Art Resource, NY. © 2007 Artists Rights So ciety, NY/ADAGP, Parisi Succes s