Louise Bourgeois, Freud's Daughter

From 1952 to 1985, Louise Bourgeois (1911&;2010) underwent extensive Freudian analysis that probed her family history, marriage, motherhood, and artistic ambition&;and generated inspiration for her artwork. Examining the impact of psychoanalysis on Bourgeois&;s work, this volume offers insight into her creative process. Philip Larratt-Smith, Bourgeois&;s literary archivist, provides an overview of the artist&;s life and work and the ways in which the psychoanalytic process informed her artistic practice. An essay by Juliet Mitchell offers a cutting-edge feminist psychoanalyst&;s viewpoint on the artist&;s long and complex relationship with therapy. In addition, a short text written by Bourgeois (first published in 1991) addresses Freud&;s own relationship to art and artists. Featuring excerpts from Bourgeois&;s copious diaries, rarely seen notebook pages, and archival family photographs, Louise Bourgeois, Freud&;s Daughter opens exciting new avenues for understanding an innovative, influential, and groundbreaking artist whose wide-ranging work includes not only renowned large-scale sculptures but also a plethora of paintings and prints.