• Figuring the Cryptic Message: The Aesthetic Mourning of Francesca Woodman

    Hybrid (In-Person at Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and Virtual) New York, NY

    Following the suicide of the celebrated photographer Francesca Woodman at the age of twenty-two, the creative work of her artist parents, Betty and George Woodman, was profoundly transformed. Following Abraham and To?ro?k, these aesthetic developments seem analogous to internalization of the lost object. Incorporative processes in George Woodman’s work subsume and immobilize transformative identifications, suggesting […]