Description: This book examines the work of French painter Edouard Manet from an unusual perspective. In contrast to conventional psycho-biographical approaches, the author develops a psychoanalytic pictorial analysis of Manet's oeuvre that emphasizes his painterly genealogy more than his personal past. Manet's engagement with his painterly
Brief description: 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.