{"id":734,"date":"2020-01-15T14:03:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T14:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=734"},"modified":"2021-05-05T11:02:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T10:02:18","slug":"francis-bacon-attacking-the-self-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"Francis Bacon: Attacking the Self-Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>A Seminar on Psychoanalysis and the Art of Francis Bacon.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-744 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Bacon-self-portrait-Full-resolution-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Bacon-self-portrait-Full-resolution-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Bacon-self-portrait-Full-resolution-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Bacon-self-portrait-Full-resolution-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Bacon-self-portrait-Full-resolution-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Bacon-self-portrait-Full-resolution-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Bacon-self-portrait-Full-resolution-scaled.jpg 1810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Dany Nobus will explore aspects of the work of Francis Bacon, focusing on what he terms the psychoanalytic labour of rejection. The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern One) are currently hosting an exhibition on Bacon and Kossoff \u2013 Reinventing the Figure. The exhibition, like this talk, is free. We strongly recommend you visit the exhibition before and after attending Professor Nobus\u2019s talk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Dany Nobus<\/strong> is a Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst and former Chair of the Freud Museum London. Main research interests include the history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis, the history of psychiatry, and the intersections between psychoanalysis, philosophy and the arts. In 2017, Dany Nobus was awarded the Sarton medal of the University of Ghent for his outstanding contributions to the history of psychoanalysis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday 22 Jan, 18:30 &#8211; 20:00<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Edinburgh Napier University, 10 Colinton Road<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Merchiston Campus, Room H5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Register for free on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/francis-bacon-attacking-the-self-portrait-tickets-89969468101\">Eventbrite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1088240481527557\/\">Facebook Event.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Seminar on Psychoanalysis and the Art of Francis Bacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-past-events"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}