Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Aesthetics and the Unconscious: Toward an Embodied Neuroscience of the Image.
Vittorio Gallese
Published: 202510.1177/00030651251394305
Abstract
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…
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