Aesthetics and the Unconscious: Toward an Embodied Neuroscience of the Image
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Published online on December 04, 2025
Abstract
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This essay develops an integrated account of aesthetic experience by bringing neuroscience into dialogue with psychoanalysis. It critiques disembodied, oculocentric models of visual perception, proposing instead that aesthetic engagement is mediated by ...
This essay develops an integrated account of aesthetic experience by bringing neuroscience into dialogue with psychoanalysis. It critiques disembodied, oculocentric models of visual perception, proposing instead that aesthetic engagement is mediated by ...