Psychoanalysis and creativity in everyday life : ordinary genius / Gemma Corradi Fiumara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corradi Fiumara, Gemma.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative ability.

Self-perception.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

x, 153 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hove, East Sussex ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

Psychoanalysis and Creativity in Everyday Life: Ordinary Genius is an attempt to create a psychoanalytic space for the quest and questions of our everyday creativity. Official creativity is normally applauded to the point of obscuring all other types of creativity, with detrimental consequences for our psychic life. However, as Gemma Corradi Fiumara demonstrates, the creative force of ordinary subjects can be as vigorous as that of our acclaimed, official geniuses. Corradi Fiumara focuses on the unsung creativity which emerges from relationships and the world at large. She explores how understanding the operation of creative impulses in an everyday setting can crucially inform psychoanalytic clinical work. There are three main themes: Donald Winnicott's psychoanalytic will, Melanie Klein and the other side of genius, Genius: ordinary and extraordinary. Psychoanalysis and Creativity in Everyday Life advocates an inclusionary view of human genius, and demonstrates that creativity and genius can be manifested in everyday life with the ordinary as its focus of attention. It will be key reading for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, philosophers and scholars in social studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

1. Introductory Remarks: An epistemic space for ordinary genius; An Aristotelian legacy; Winnicott's psychoanalytic will; Blinding by historic genius; Opportunities for ordinary genius; "Blowing on the embers" versusJjeux de massacre

2. Unsung Heroes: Regardless of magnitude; The question of relating; The courage to surrender

3. Ego Development and De-Dreation of our Egos: Ways to learn

and unlearning; Ways to unthink and rethink

4. Genius: Ordinary and Extraordinary: Introduction; On the "essential superiority" of acclaimed inventiveness; Some contours of extraordinary genius; Features of ordinary genius; Melanie Klein and the other side of genius

5. The Connective Function: Creative connections and their defaults; Creative connections and relational progress; The capacity to include

6. The "I" of the Personality: Preliminary remarks; The embracing witness; The insightful "I"? beyond the ego

7. Ceative Service: Am I my brother's keeper?; Contact: risks and gains; Caring: here and now

8. Minding our Business: The legitimacy of creativeness; The affliction of parasitic projections; Addictive thinking; Escape from projections and ransom of the self.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-142) and index.

ISBN:

9780415637275

0415637279

9780415637282

0415637287

OCLC:

822028622

Publisher Number:

40022503356