New Book by NYPSI Member Lois Oppenheim

Congratulations to Lois Oppenheim and Ludovica Lumer on the publication of their new book,

For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience

In For Want of Ambiguity, Lumer and Oppenheim seek to uncover the dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience that sheds light on the transformational capacity of contemporary art. New questions arise in the context of such a dialogue as to the uniquely transgressive and often provocative arena in which aesthetic meaning is made and patterns of making sense are revealed. From a neuroscientific and psychoanalytic exchange on the work of Diamante Faraldo, Ai Weiwei, Ida Barbarigo, Xavier Le Roy, Bill T. Jones, Cindy Sherman, Francis Bacon, Agnes Martin, and others, the authors find new ways of thinking about how insight is achieved. In lifting the veil of certainty, they show how together these disciplines impel us to experience the world from new perspectives.