Grace Pailthorpe’s Writings on Psychoanalysis and Surrealism
Alberto Stefana, "Grace Pailthorpe’s Writings on Psychoanalysis and Surrealism"
English | ISBN: 1032366478 | 2022 | 136 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 1032366478 | 2022 | 136 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
This book gathers the published and unpublished writings of Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), English surgeon, specialist in psychological medicine and surrealist artist to provide an in-depth study of her work and legacy.
Pailthorpe’s theoretical understanding of the psyche informed her approach to art, setting her work apart from other Surrealist artists by unifying artistic, scientific and therapeutic aims. Pailthorpe considered Surrealism to be a method of investigation into unconscious mental life, and believed that it was essential that the repressed part of our minds should find expression. By bringing her artistic and theoretical work to light, Montanaro and Stefana reassert Pailthorpe’s significance to the histories of both psychoanalysis and Surrealism, rendering the cross-disciplinary relevance of her work accessible to a contemporary audience.
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