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NPSI January 2026 Scientific Meeting: “The Present in the Past and the Past in the Present: Édouard Manet: The Lure of Past and the Gaze" presented by Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, PhD, FIPA
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Jeanne Wolff Bernstein will present her psychoanalytic pictorial analysis of the works of French painter Édouard Manet from three viewpoints—personal, historical, and identificatory. Illustrated with several of Manet’s paintings, she develops these perspectives as they appear in her recent book, The Lure of the Gaze and the Past, a Psychoanalytical Study of the Works of Édouard Manet (2025). Linking the limited biographical data available about Manet with his painterly representations, Wolff Bernstein offers unexpected inferences about his life. She interprets Manet’s numerous references to Old Masters’ paintings as evocations of his painterly—rather than personal—past and uses Freud’s concept of Nachträglichkeit to uncover the veiled relationships between Manet’s contemporary painted figures and his citations of past imagery.
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