Fashion and Psychoanalysis
Styling the Self
by Alison Bancroft

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Author(s)

Alison Bancroft

Publication

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2012

Scope

238 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.

ISBN

9781780760049

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In this book, Alison Bancroft re-examines significant moments in twentieth century fashion history through the focal lens of psychoanalytic theory. Her discussion centers on studies of fashion photography, haute couture, queer dressing, and fashion/art in an attempt to shed new light on these key issues. According to Bancroft, problems of subjectivity are played out through fashion, in the public arena, and not just in the dark, unknowable unconscious mind. By interpreting fashion within a psychoanalytic frame, Bancroft illustrates how fashion articulates some of the essential, and sometimes frightening, truths about the body, femininity, and the self.

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Keywords

queer theory

Location

Cabinet 14 - 1: Mode

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.