Reflections on the Aesthetic Experience

Interest in the relationship between psychoanalysis and art - and other disciplines - is growing. In his new book Reflections on the Aesthetic: Psychoanalysis and the uncanny , Gregorio Kohon examines and reflects upon psychoanalytic understandings of estrangement, the Freudian notions of the uncanny and Nachträglichkeit , exploring how these are evoked in works of literature and art, and are present in our response to such works. Kohon provides close readings of and insights into the works of F