Psychology of the Image

by Forrester,Michael

• ISBN13: 9780415165150
• ISBN10: 0415165156
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Images play a key role in influencing our understanding of ourselves, those around us and our environment. This role is likely to become more central in the next millennium. Psychology of the Image outlines a theoretical framework bringing together the semiotic concepts developed by Charles Peirce, the sociological insights of Ervin Goffman and the psychoanalytic ideas of Jacques Lacan. Image studies in fashion, advertising photography, film studies and psychology have all been influenced in significant ways by these thinkers. The framework presented helps the reader understand how these ideas relate to the study of different domains of the image: the internal imagery of dreams, external images such as the photograph and image processes which span both contexts, e.g., images we have about ourselves.

Author Biography

Michael Forrester is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Kent.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vi
Acknowledgements	vii
Outlining a psychology of the image	1	(14)
THEME I Images of what is `inside' or internal	15	(50)
Seeing, visualising and mental imagery	17	(16)
Sound imagery	33	(17)
Dream images and conceptions of the unconscious	50	(15)
THEME II Interdependent images: inside and out, or outside and in?	65	(60)
The developing self	67	(17)
Self-image and social identity	84	(19)
The gendered image	103	(22)
THEME III External images and all that is `out there'	125	(56)
The mass media of the moving image: television and film	127	(18)
Virtual semiotics and electronic images	145	(13)
Photography and the photographic image	158	(17)
Postscript to a psychology of the image	175	(6)
Bibliography	181	(21)
Index	202