Art & Psychoanalysis December 3, 2005

DARIAN LEADER AND JAKE CHAPMAN

"If Jake Chapman's consciousness is as depraved and degenerate as we all know it to be, what a squalid miscreant abyss his subconscious must be! Here he discusses the id, ego, superego and other Freudian slips with leading psychoanalyst Darian Leader, who has previously probed the murky realm where art meets Oedipal complexes in his book Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops Us From Seeing. Whether Leader can explain the Chapmans' phallus-faced mutants and McDonalds obsession with sophisticated sophistry about Jake's unhappy childhood and lack of mother love is yet to be seen, but it will certainly be an hour on the therapist's couch well-spent."

(via KultureFlash)

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