Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life @ The Science Museum

"In painting and film, gloves traditionally function as symbols of power and sex. As fetish, the stretched fabric in the shape of the hand materializes the tension between inside and outside, between the act of penetrating and being penetrated. It also conveys the tactility of the skin yet creating another skin or barrier to touch."

The Science Museum will explore the workings of the unconscious mind with a new exhibition, Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life – which opens on 13 October and runs until April 2011.
The exhibition celebrates the contribution of psychoanalysis to the understanding of the mind and culture. The exhibition will focus on a key concept of psychoanalysis – how the unconscious can be interpreted through everyday experiences and in artefacts, both historical and contemporary.
The visitor will experience the subject of psychoanalysis through a range of modern and historical objects, contemporary artworks, digital animation and audio interpretation of key exhibits by psychoanalysts.

Highlights include artworks by leading artists such as Grayson Perry and Noble & Webster which take inspiration from psychoanalytical ideas. The exhibition will also feature artworks that have been specially created for the exhibition in collaboration with leading psychoanalysts.

The exhibition will feature a wealth of artefacts from collections at the Science Museum, Wellcome library, and Freud Museum. Notable objects include a cabinet containing ancient statuettes from Greece and an Egyptian death mask. Visitors will also see a selection of children’s drawings from the Melanie Klein Archive, which have never been on public display before.

Other items will include a selection of body casts of masks, feet, eyes and phalluses which will be brought out of the Science Museum’s storage rooms for the exhibition.

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