A Political Mind Special | Art in a State of Siege How Art Bears Witness in Times of Crisis | British Psychoanalytical Society
A Political Mind Special | Art in a State of Siege How Art Bears Witness in Times of Crisis
Tuesday 2nd December, 8:15pm UK Time
In Art in a State of Siege, Joseph Koerner examines how art bears witness to moments of collective psychic rupture—when the social contract collapses and unconscious anxieties surge into the cultural field. From a psychoanalytic perspective, these artworks emerge as symbolic defences, sublimations, and communications in times of acute societal breakdown.