Viewing Art Through a Psychoanalytic Lens by Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, PhD

June 14, 2025

Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, PhD

Live Interactive Online Webinar

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Time:
9:00 – 11:00 am (PST)
12:00 noon – 2:00 pm (EST)

Content Level: Intermediate
One-Session Program: 2 CEs
Member Fee: $80.00
Candidate/Student Fee: $50.00

This videoconference is co-sponsored by The Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies (CIPS) and The Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS)

Viewing Art Through a Psychoanalytic Lens by Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, PhD

Manet and the Lure of the Gaze and the Past

Drawing upon Freud‘s essay Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious and Lacan’s theory of the gaze and the mirror, Jeanne Wolfe Bernstein demonstrates how Manet incorporates the unconscious process of his spectators to complete the scenes portrayed on his canvases. Manet’s “scandalous” Olympia serves as a touchstone to a psychoanalytic pictorial analysis of Manet’s oeuvre.”

Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Ph.D., lives and works as a psychoanalyst in Vienna. She is Vice President of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association, former President of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna. She teaches at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association, the New York University Postdoctoral Program for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and she is on the faculty at PINC.

References

  • House, J.; Skolnick,J (2015) Apres Coup in French Psychoanalysis: The Long Afterlife of Nachtraglichkeit, The First Hundred Years, 1893 – 1993. Psychoanalytic Review, vol. 102, (5), 683 – 704.
  • House, J. (2017) The Ongoing Rediscovery of Apres Coup as a Central Freudian Concept. JAPA, vol 65 (5) 773 – 798.
  • Taiana. C. (2022) What Does Poetry Offer Psychoanalysis? T. S. Eliot’s Concept of Tradition. Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis,30 (2) 191-214.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the program, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe how Manet incorporates the unconscious processes of spectators to complete the scenes portrayed on his canvases.
  2. Discuss pictorial analyses of Manet’s paintings that emerge from the artist’s relations to previous works rather than from his personal past.
  3. Apply Lacan’s concept of the Gaze to the study of Manet’s paintings.

Who Should Attend

Mental Health Professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed professional counselors, e.g., LPs, LCATs, and pastoral counselors) and those with an interest in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking and clinical applications.

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CE credits will only be granted to participants with documented attendance of the entire program. No partial credit will be offered. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion of this program and online evaluation form, participants will be granted CE credits.

Important Disclosure Information: There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.

Cancellation Policy:

Full refunds will be issued if notification of cancellation is received 72 hours prior to the start of the course.