Psychoanalysis, the study of the unconscious, has provided
artists in the 20th and 21st centuries with both a visual language and valuable psychological tools to address the social
phenomenon of violence against women. The volume presents groundbreaking research on various representations of gender-based
violence in art. The book aims to examine the cultural constructions embedded in this phenomenon and to explore the different
strategies that have been developed on different continents to counteract it. The artists featured are Oskar Kokoschka, María
Izquierdo, Grete Stern, Dorothea Tanning, Ana Mendieta, Kiki Kogelnik, Marina Abramović, Soli Kiani, Sigalit Landau, and Hava
Raucher, as well as the filmmaker Ruth Beckermann and the philosopher Hélène Cixous.
With contributions in English
and German and German and English abstracts
Elana Shapira, Department of Cultural Studies, Institute
of Studies in Art and Art Education, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Daniela Finzi, literary and cultural
scholar, head of the research department of the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, and board member of the Sigmund Freud Foundation
BOOK PRESENTATIONIt Hurts! Violence against Women in Art and Psychoanalysis
was presented to the public on November 27, 2025, at the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, and forms the basis for the
second part of the discourse series GEFÜHLTE FAKTEN – Dialoge zwischen Wissenschaft und Literatur on Thursday, December
4, 2025 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna:
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Gewalt – zur Instrumentalisierung der Diskurse
