Dress, Dreams, and Desire
A History of Fashion and Psychoanalysis
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 13 November 2025
- Number of Volumes Flexiback
- ISBN 9781350428188
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 244x186x22 mm
- Weight 730 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 102 color and 38 b&w illus 772
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Long description:
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""Fascinating."" - The New Yorker
What can psychoanalysis tell us about the power and allure of fashion? Valerie Steele, author of Dress, Dreams and Desire, was described by critic Suzy Menkes as ""the Freud of fashion."" In this pathbreaking book, the first cultural history of fashion and psychoanalysis, Steele does not merely hold a mirror up to fashion's surface, she looks into its soul.
A renowned fashion historian, Steele draws on key psychoanalytic concepts about the body, sexuality, and the unconscious - from the dream theories of Freud and Jung to Lacan's mirror stage and Anzieu's skin ego - to interpret the work of designers such as Elsa Schiaparelli, Gianni Versace, and Alexander McQueen. She explores how fashion is the lens through which we see ourselves - and how others see us. Far from being superficial, fashion can be regarded as a ""deep surface"" that communicates our unconscious desires and anxieties, with none of us fully aware of what we are ""saying"" with the clothes we wear.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Fashion as a Deep Surface
Chapter 1: Freud and Fashion
Chapter 2: The Naked Dreamer
Chapter 3: The Masquerade
Chapter 4: The Mirror and the Fragmented Body
Chapter 5: Bitter Enemies
Chapter 6: Desire and Sexual Difference
Chapter 7: To Touch the Gaze
Chapter 8: Bodies to Wear
Notes
Bibliography
Image Credits
Index
