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Dress, Dreams, and Desire: A History of Fashion and Psychoanalysis

By (author) Valerie Steele

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What can psychoanalysis tell us about the power and allure of fashion? Valerie Steele, author of Dress, Dreams and Desire, was described by critic Suzy Menkes as â€œthe Freud of fashion.â€ In this pathbreaking book, the first cultural history of fashion and psychoanalysis, Steele does not merely hold a mirror up to fashionâ€™s surface, she looks into its soul. A renowned fashion historian, Steele draws on key psychoanalytic concepts about the body, sexuality, and the unconscious â€“ from the dream theories of Freud and Jung to Lacanâ€™s mirror stage and Anzieuâ€™s skin ego â€“ to interpret the work of designers such as Elsa Schiaparelli, Gianni Versace, and Alexander McQueen. She explores how fashion is the lens through which we see ourselves â€“ and how others see us. Far from being superficial, fashion can be regarded as a â€œdeep surfaceâ€ that communicates our unconscious desires and anxieties, with none of us fully aware of what we are ""saying"" with the clothes we wear.

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