16. “Think, Pig!”: Modernist Art, Psychotherapy, and the Instrumentalization of Imagining

Hudson, Suzanne; Sheehan, Tanya

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There is a particular kind of verbal formulation that is a command to do something, but only in one’s mind: to mentally rehearse an action rather than perform it outwardly. This formulation is what we will call an instruction to imagine.

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Matthew MacKisack

PublisherYale University Press

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Chapter subject tags:Modernism (Art)--United StatesArt therapyPsychoanalysis and artCage, JohnOno, Yōko, 1943-Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989Weiner, Lawrence, 1942-2021Barthes, RolandLeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007

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