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In her new book Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation, psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair explores the long and rich relationship between psychoanalysis and the fine arts by examining the work of artists spanning more than a century, beginning at the dawn of photography and culminating in contemporary artists working in a multitude of media. In looking at these works, she draws on the theories of Sigmund Freud, who applied psychoanalytic methods to art and literature in order to decipher the meaning and intention of the creator, as well as Jacques Lacan’s dissemination of scansion as a powerful tool to disrupt narrative.

This talk, based on her new book, will look at a variety of artists and art forms, ranging from painting and music to poetry, collage, photography, film, performance art and body modification, including modern artists, dadaists, surrealists, noise musicians, beat poets, avant-garde and experimental filmmakers, alternative communities, and contemporary artists working with gender and sexuality, technology, morbidity, death and the unexpected. Through this exploration, Sinclair highlights scansion as a generative process inherent of the act of creation itself.

Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst based in Stockholm, who sees analysands internationally. Dr. Sinclair is the author of Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: the Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2020), Switching Mirrors (Trapart Books, 2016) and The Pathways of the Heart (Trapart Books, 2021), the editor of Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019), and co-editor of Outsider Inpatient: Reflections on Art as Therapy (Trapart Books, 2021) with Dr. Elisabeth Punzi, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2018) with Dr. Manya Steinkoler and The Fenris Wolf, vol 9 (Trapart Books, 2017) with Carl Abrahamsson. Dr. Sinclair is the host of Rendering Unconscious Podcast and a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis. www.drvanessasinclair.net

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction

Part I - Sowing Seeds/Setting the Stage
Chapter 1: A Cut in Time: The Advent of Photography
Chapter 2: Reimagining the Frame: The Birth of Modern Art

Part II - Unleashing the Unconscious

Chapter 3: The Art of Noise
Chapter 4: Psychoanalysis and Dada
Chapter 5: Collage, Photomontage and Assemblage
Chapter 6: Disrupting the Expected: Marcel Duchamp

Part III - Revolution of Mind
Chapter 7: Surrealism/Acéphale
Chapter 8: Double-bind: Cutting the Bonds of Gender
Chapter 9: The Cutting Edge
Avant-garde and Experimental Cinema
Chapter 10: The Cut-up Method of the Beats

Part IV - When Art Becomes Life (and Death)
Chapter 11: Acting Out: Pop, Street and Performance Art
Chapter 12: Cut from the Collective: Alternative Communities
Chapter 13: Body Modification, Polymorphous Perversity and Pandrogeny
Chapter 14: Technology, Morbidity, Death and the Unexpected; Index