Psychoanalysis

Strengths
Weaknesses
  1. Introduces �common sense� account of understanding visual culture. To understand the work, we must understand what the individual was trying to express.
  2. Rejection of the fixed nature of subjects and sexuality
  3. Concentrates on the construction and formation of subjectivity
  4. Undertsand artist�s inmterests, lifeworld, fears and desires.
  1. Common sense' involves incoherences, ambiguities, inconsistencies, contradictions, omissions, gaps and silences which offer leverage points for potential social change
  2. Universalizes the model. The same 19th century model cannot be applied to everyone.
  3. Individual viewer�s interpretation is very subjective

 

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