Yoneda Tomoko
Freud's Glasses–Viewing a Text by Jung II

Freud's Glasses–Viewing a Text by Jung II

© Tomoko Yoneda

Freud's Glasses–Viewing a Text by Jung II
Freud's Glasses–Viewing a Text by Jung II
ArtistJapanese, born 1965
CultureJapanese
Titles
  • Freud's Glasses–Viewing a Text by Jung II
  • from the series Between Visible and Invisible
Date1998
PlaceJapan
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 15 5/16 × 15 in. (38.9 × 38.1 cm)
Sheet: 23 7/8 × 19 15/16 in. (60.6 × 50.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Clinton T. Willour in honor of Maya Ishiwata
Object number99.513
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Yoneda Tomoko created
the photographs in her series, Between
Visible and Invisible
, through the lenses of actual glasses worn by
influential 20th-century figures. She simulated experiences from their lives
using actual objects at their estates or in their archives. In Freud’s glasses—Viewing a Text by Jung,
Yoneda photographed a re-enactment of Sigmund Freud’s first reading of Carl
Jung’s 1912 Wandlungen und Symbole der
Libido (Psychology of the Unconscious)
. This text would cause a theoretical
rift between Freud and Jung that resulted in a falling-out between the two
famous scholar-friends.

Between
Visible and Invisible
refers to the correlation between the image on the
surface (the visible) and images below the surface (the invisible) such as our
ideas of these men and the historical facts. These two elements come together
to make a new image,” says Yoneda.


Provenance[Zeit-Foto Co., Ltd., Tokyo]; purchased by MFAH, 1999.
Exhibition History"Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brown Foundation Galleries, February 21 - May 9, 2010.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
The photograph is inscribed in pencil, verso, lower right: "Between Visible and Invisible / Freud's glasses - viewing a text by Jung 1998 / [signature] 1/8"
The photograph is signed in pencil, verso, lower right.

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