🏴It begins… I just posted rather tame images of artworks by Paul McCarthy and Gregory Crewdson as honourable mentions re the advent calendar. But this censorship is appropriate and prescient for the last post of the Advent Calendar tomorrow, which will also be probably removed.

I will putting the whole psychoanalysis & art advent calendar on my website in the next week at smallnight.org.

This is the wrong pond!🏴🏴🏴

Here’s the text from the last post:

I have so many honourable mentions re the advent calendar, which was something I didn’t plan or think through, but needed to do. It’s been quite the commitment. The last post will be tomorrow, but I want to mention artist Paul McCarthy, who I bring up every year in class to the disgust and curiosity of my students. His seminal “Painter” was mentioned in a Hauser & Wirth post just days ago, but it is his LIFE CAST at Hauser & Wirth New York in 2013 that I keep returning to, because of the mix of uncanny and abjection.

And lastly re honourable mentions, there’s Gregory Crewdson’s “Basement” 2014, which I open the course with, but say nothing, just let the students sit with the image and narrativise their memories and feelings and references. When you find out that Crewdson’s dad was a psychoanalyst, whose practice was in the basement of the family home, and young Gregory listened to bits and pieces of traumas discussed between his dad and the analysand, the image is injected with new meanings, new gaps, that psychoanalytic theory can speculate upon but never find the truth or cure🏴