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MynaTrustram
The unconscious in the museum
May 9 2010, 10:32 AM EDT | Post edited: May 9 2010, 10:32 AM EDT
I am interested in museums (including art galleries) and the role they play in our inner lives. Strictly speaking I suppose museums aren’t ‘media’ but they are popular and vastly under-theorised in this area. I am interested in both museums as institutions and the concrete objects they contain. Currently I am playing with ideas about psychic objects and concrete objects and the museum viewer’s encounter with both inside the spaces of a museum. Object relations theory is therefore important as are Winnicott’s ideas about transitional spaces and transitional objects. I am linking this with current museum professional practice (I am more a practitioner than an academic). So my aim is to use psychoanalytic ideas to think about the ‘museum in the mind’ and so widen professional debates about what museums are for. Is anyone else interested in this? Do you find this valuable?    
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