Psychology of the Image
Publisher: Routledge
Published: July 7, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780415165150
First sentence: In contemporary culture images play a significant role in influencing our understanding of ourselves, those around us, and the environment we live in.
Description: "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 been influenced by these theorists in significant ways. 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."--Jacket.