41, Three Dancers, 42 and Dora Maar, 46-9,
Weeping Woman, 49 minotaur imagery, 32, 43, 45, 48, 50, 51, 71, 72
mother, 20, 27-28, 31-32, 67, 68 and Fernande Olivier, 37-40 Femme au bouquet, 39 and peace, 64 “The Picasso Century”, 63 portraits, 25, 27, 74, 185 seen in series, 75 rebelliousness of, as youth, 31 and Jacqueline Roque, 52-6 sculpture, 39, 59 self-description, 60
as sexual hero,190, 191 sister Conception (Conchita), 30, 63 sister Lola, birth of, 30 treatment of women, 26, 185 and Marie-Therese Walter, 42-6 Girl Before a Mirror, 45 western culture and, 25 Picasso, Paloma (daughter of), 49, 50 Picasso, Pablito (grandson), suicide, 56 Picasso, Marina (granddaughter), 43, 53, 56-7
Picasso, Maya (daughter), 43, 45 Picasso, Diana Widmaier (granddaughter), 43, 70
Picasso, Claude (son), 49, 50, 128 Picasso Lopez, Dona Maria (mother of Pablo), 27-8, 31, 32, 68 n14 Picasso, Olivier Widmaier (grandson), 43, 47, 58
Plotinus, on the soul, 176, 180 pornography, 56, 79, 94, 97, 98, 110 portraits, 185
Balthus’s portraits of adult women, 115
Bellmer, 87, 96, 105, 115
Cornell and 147
Picasso and distortion, 25
of Picasso’s father, 29
first distortions, 36
cycle of damage in, 39-50, 63, 74
culmination of pathology, 53-54
self, 34, 42, 85
psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic theory, 2, 5- 7
artists and, 33, 65
Balthus’s aversion to, 129, 130,
133n27
understanding Bellmer, 78 Cornell’s reading of, 161 and de Sade, 113 drive discharge model, 7
psychobiography, 1, 2, 4, 22, 56, 111,
182
and attachment, 16-17, 21, 65 bias in, 1
data sources for, 4-5, 7, 13, 27 psychopathology
and emotional regulators, 18 psychosis, 187 Puppes, 84. See La Poupee.
Rank, Otto
origins of pleasure, 3, 4, 26 regulation processes regression, 19 repair, 6, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23 interactive repair, 19. See also repair religion
normalizing pedophilia, 130 and repair, 98, 129-31 Cornell and, 144, 152, 157- 62, 171, 173-4, 176, 177 Renoir, Auguste, 25, 128, 184 repair
interactive repair, 6, 18-19, 20-21, 182, 188,
Balthus, 114,118, 123, 124 Bellmer, 85, 98 Cornell, 149, 173, 182, 188 perversion and, 110 Picasso, 57, 61 Winnicott, 96-97 Rilke, Ranier Maria, 107
and Balthus, 111, 113-114, 131 and Balthus’s family milieu, 110,117, 118, 126, 129, 133, 134 Cornell reading, 164 Roque, Jacqueline (wife of Picasso), 37, 46, 50, 52-5, 57, 68, 72, 75. See also Picasso
sacrifice, female, 96, 97, 121, 122,
123,191
sacrifice, imagery of
in paintings of Balthus, 123 sadism,71, 79, 122, 182 Bellmer, 94, 100 sado-masochism, 42, 187 Schnell, Margarete (Bellmer’s first wife), 82. See also Bellmer.
Schore, Allan N., 17, 18, 19, 23 Schultz, William Todd, 2, 22 self-organization, 12, 28 sexual games
of adolescents, 92, 93 sexuality, 19, 59,109, 123, 125, 186, 187 adolescent, 84, 92,117 adult 106, 120 Cornell 156, mother, 118, 120
over stimulated, 43, 56, 57, 63, 95, 98, 191
Surrealism and, 42, 163 women’s, 45 sisters
Balthus and sister-models, 127,
136 n62
Picasso and 28, 30, 36, 64 Winnicott and 96-7 Cornell and 153, 154, 177 sleep, as imagery of control, 69, 89, 113, 125, 146, 171, 173 sexual anxiety, 77, 91, 101 and play, 33, 46
the writings of Hermann Hesse, 99 Smith, Joan, 183, 193 Solomon, Deborah (biographer of Cornell), 140, 147, 153, 155, 156 Spiro, Melford, 112, 185 Stoller, Robert, 77, 81, 86, 101, 110, 133 theory of perversion, 82 and Bellmer, 81
suicide, 26, 44, 52, 56, 85, 114, 126 surrealism, 163
survival, 7, 12, 17, 29, 72, 156, 176 Sutter, Marcelle Celine (Bellmer’s
second wife), 83. See also Bellmer.
Taylor, Sue (biographer of Bellmer), 78, 80, 81, 83, 87,
92, 93, 101-3, 170 Tison, Frederique (niece of Balthus) model for Young Girl in a White Shirt, Girl at a Window, 120, 124, 126,127,129, 134, 135 transcendentalism, 158, 160 trauma
definition of, 93 displacement of, 84 birth, 187
reconstruction of, 77 violence,
and Bataille’s view of sex, 94 Balthus, 116, 121, 124, 131 Cornell, tension from implied, 160 male sexual, 183, 184, 189 and Picasso38, 49, 51, 62 visual language as autobiography, 108 visual communication,
avoidant gaze, 115, 126 eye contact, gaze, 6, 11, 19, 20, 58, 61
Walter, Marie-Therese (wife of Picasso), 37, 41-6, 49, 53, 58
Webb, Peter (biographer of Bellmer), 83, 87, 88, 90, 93
Weber, Nicholas (biographer of Balthus), 107, 110-12, 116, 119, 123, 126 Winnicott, Donald, 6, 35, 96, 187 play, 33, 96-7, 99, 123, 133, 150 transitional objects, 6, 96-7, 99 withdrawal, 14, 19, 64, 145 and isolated monkeys, 19 womanizing, compulsive, 26, 188 women
love-hate, in art, 1 See also image, imagery, portraits Wordsworth, William, 164 The Prelude, 10 writers, personal conflicts, 1
Zurn, Unica. childhood, 85
Oracles and Spectacles, 80, 85, 101 The Man of Jasmine: Impressions from a Mental Illness, 85, 101. See also Bellmer.