Presented by: Vera J. Camden & Valentino L. Zullo

Psychoanalysis has from its origins been imbricated in culture, both high and low. Sigmund Freud defined and illustrated his pivotal discoveries through explications of folklore and fairy tales as well as the works of Sophocles, Shakespeare and other venerable texts. What is less known, however, is that comics is also part of psychoanalytic history and development.

In this presentation, we both uncover this history and frame a place for sequential art in the future of psychoanalysis following the words of French psychoanalyst Didier Anzieu, who wrote that “psychoanalysis has a greater need of people who think in images than of scholars, scholiasts, abstract or formalistic thinkers.”