This post of images from Yale Library's Psyche & Muse exhibit addresses a few glaring omissions from 50 Watts: The Prinzhorn collection, Jung's Red Book, and Kokoschka's "kids' book." The exhibit took place last winter:

Psyche & Muse: Creative Entanglements with the Science of the Soul explores cultural, clinical, and scientific discourse on human psychology and its influence on twentieth-century writers, artists, and thinkers. Tracing important themes in the lives and work of key figures and artistic communities represented in the Beinecke Library’s Modern European and American Literature collections, the exhibition documents a range of imaginative encounters involving the arts and the study of the mind. The books, manuscripts, and visual works in Psyche & Muse represent aesthetic and philosophic lineages from the late nineteenth century to the postwar era; the exhibited materials reveal ways in which the study of psychology and core concepts of psychoanalysis were both intertwined and at odds with artistic production throughout the twentieth century.

Via the library's great blog Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities. Tomorrow I'll be posting some of my Room 26 favorites. [update: here's that post]

People searching for peace of mind through...Psychoanalysis, n.3 (Tiny Tot Comics, c. 1955)

Carl Jung, from the Red Book...
"When Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration, the result was "The Red Book," a large, illuminated volume he created between 1914 and 1930. However, only a handful of people have ever seen it. Now, in a complete facsimile and translation, it is available to scholars and the general public."

The Red Book on Amazon

Psychiatry, or, The death of the soul, Aldo Piromalli

1946, Gaston Ferdiere and Antonin Artaud at the asylum

Portrait d'une malade soignee par le Dr. Dardel execute par Antonin Artaud

Gestaltungen aus jenseitigem Lande
From Richard Arwed Pfeifer, Der Geisteskranke und sein Werk: eine Studie ueber schizophrene Kunst (Leipzig : Alfred Kroener, 1923)

The next five images come from the Prinzhorn collection

Adolf Wolfli, Dekorativ-symbolische Zeichnung (Buntstift)

See the book The Art of Adolf Wolfli: St. Adolf-Giant-Creation

Sakrale (Goetzen-) (Aquarell)

"Lufterscheinung" Halluzination (Bleistift)

"Jenseits-Auferstehungs-Myriaden" (Buntstift)

Der Wuergengel (Buntstift)

Dessin de symbolique, commente par un texte cryptographique, Broderie

Die traeumenden Knaben by Kokoschka

Read about this book at MoMA

"Dr. Froyd seemed to think that I was quite a famous case"

Freud's couch

Looks comfy

"view of the antiquities: directly in front of Freud's chair"

Looks scary

Emilie Deleuze

Suikergoed & marsepein, Bart Hughes (Amsterdam, 1965-1978)

Man on a pendulum : a case history of an invert presented by a religious counselor

People searching for peace of mind through...Psychoanalysis, n.4 (Tiny Tot Comics, c. 1955)

Previously: Cosmic Picture Frenzy