Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna: Science, Eros, and the Psychoanalytic Imagination.

Mary Bergstein's book, "Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna: Science, Eros, and the Psychoanalytic Imagination," explores the visual materials and texts that circulated in Vienna around 1900. Bergstein argues that popular visual mediums, such as photography and film, played a significant role in constructing the psychoanalytic visual environment. The book examines topics such as X-ray photography, the power of hypnosis in cinema, and the classical representation of nudity in Vienna. Bergstein demonstrates how these visual representations influenced Freud's thinking and contributed to the formation of psychoanalytic thought. This book provides valuable insights into the role of representation in psychoanalysis and is a must-read for those interested in the psychoanalytic formation of representation. [Extracted from the article]