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One of the values of art lies in its ability to question culturally dominant modes of representation. Art can challenge powerful categories like identity, production and desire. Whereas a media like advertising is supposed to tell us what we want, art – or at least some of it – is supposed to ask us what we want. It can stimulate an encounter with our experience of representations as such and highlight the way in which the realities we take for granted are constructed ones. Art might be seen as a culture's
Psychoanalysis has proved itself to be a unique method of questioning and cultural enquiry. By taking the unconscious and its effects seriously, and by recognising and exploring human passions and forms of enjoyment, it sheds new light on social and political stasis and change. Psychoanalytic perspectives can allow us to investigate the hidden logic of meanings, behaviours and ideologies, facilitating a deeper understanding of many of the processes and problems that characterise the world today. Darian Lead
If families, societies and our own psyches would prefer to control our speech; if there is something about free speaking which makes politicians, mothers and censors nervous, then psychoanalysis as a free space invented by Freud where anything, however trivial, suspect or mad can be said is still essential. It is, after all, where silence is compelled that evil is done. The encouragement of free speaking as a form of dissent and of creativity is crucial in psychoanalysis, just as it is in literature and in