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The creative matrix : anxiety and the origin of creativity / Andrew Brink.
Van Pelt Library BF698.9.C74 B75 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brink, Andrew.
- Series:
- Reshaping of psychoanalysis 1059-3551 ; vol. 10.
- The reshaping of psychoanalysis, 1059-3551 ; vol. 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Personality and creative ability.
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Psychological aspects.
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Anxiety.
- Attachment behavior.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Physical Description:
- 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, [2000]
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Creative Matrix 1
- 1. Anxiety, Adaptation and Fear 17
- 2. The Biology of Regeneration 28
- 3. Regeneration and Communication 40
- Part II A Review of Psychoanalytic Theories of Creativity
- 4. Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank on Creativity 59
- 5. Melanie Klein and Reparation 70
- 6. Ronald Fairbairn: Beyond "Restitution" 78
- 7. D.W. Winnicott as Tiresias 89
- 8. Adrian Stokes: Aesthetics, Eros and Death 106
- 9. Marion Milner: Psychoanalysis and Contemplative Creativity 119
- 10. Alice Miller: Creativity as Insight 134
- Part III Creativity: The Manic-Depression Controversy
- 11. Nancy C. Andreasen, Kay R. Jamison and Others: Studies of Creativity 147
- 12. Three Bipolar Poets Reconsidered: Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath 167
- Conclusion: Attachment, Trauma and a New View of Creativity 179.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-216) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0820444804
- OCLC:
- 40838699
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