The Lure of the Gaze: Jeanne Wolff Bernstein on Art and Psychoanalysis
What happens when we look at a painting, and what happens when the painting looks back? In this episode, psychoanalyst Jeanne Wolff Bernstein joins us to discuss her book The Lure of the Gaze and the Past, exploring Manet’s paintings through Freud and Lacan.
Listen onApple PodcastsWe delve into the relationship between the gaze, desire, identification, and the unconscious, and consider how art implicates the viewer in the very scene they are looking at. Jeanne Wolff Bernstein is a psychoanalyst based in Vienna, former president of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, and Vice President of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association. Her work explores the intersections of psychoanalysis, visual art, and film.