Dress, dreams, and desire : a history of fashion and psychoanalysis /

Accompanying a major exhibition at The Museum at FIT, this beautifully illustrated book, written by the Director and Chief Curator of The Museum and leading fashion theorist, Valerie Steele, shows how psychoanalysis can provide important clues about the power and allure of fashion, as well as the am...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Steele, Valerie (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, [2025].
Subjects:	Fashion > Social aspects. Clothing and dress > Symbolic aspects. Psychoanalysis and the arts. Psychoanalysis > History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Fashion as a deep surface
Freud and fashion
The naked dreamer
The masquerade
The mirror and the fragmented body
Bitter enemies
Desire and sexual difference
To touch the gaze
Bodies to wear.