Psychoanalysis and literature : the stories we live / Marilyn Charles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charles, Marilyn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Psychoanalysis in literature.

Physical Description:

xviii, 275 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]

Summary:

Psychoanalysis offers many concepts that are extremely useful clinically but not always accessible in the original. In Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Stories We Live, Marilyn Charles pairs case vignettes with examples from literature to highlight the essential human struggles that play out in the consulting room. This pairing depathologizes those struggles and offers a conceptual framework that can help the clinician facilitate these journeys of discovery. Describing first how literature affords an opportunity for vicarious engagement with dilemmas endemic to the human condition, she then focuses on trauma, dreams, and "cultural collisions" turning more explicitly to the developmental challenges of identity, relatedness, aging, and generativity. Psychoanalysis and Literature is accessible, relevant, and timely. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Sensory Experience

Introduction 3

1 Epiphany: The Poet's Art, The Analyst's Instrument: Formal Structure as a Vehicle for the Expression of Primary Experience 9

2 The Waves: Tensions Between Creativity and Containment in the Life and Writings of Virginia Woolf 23

II Trauma

3 Falling Man: Encounters with Catastrophic Change 45

4 Telling Trauma: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 65

III Dreams

5 The Book of Intimate Grammar: Transgenerational Trauma 77

6 Dreamscapes: Memoirs of a Survivor 89

7 Reparation and Redemption: Nightmare and Memory in D. M. Thomas's Pictures at an Exhibition and in Clinical Practice 107

IV Cultural Collisions

8 Collisions Between Conscious and Unconscious, East and West: Kafka on the Shore 119

9 Cultural Chasms: Mulberry and Peach 137

V The Hero's Quest: Identity and Relatedness

10 Journeys into the Labyrinth, Part I: The Magus 159

11 Through the Unknown, Remembered Gate: Journeys into the Labyrinth, Part II: The Glass Bead Game 169

12 Standing Outside the Gates: Pierre, or The Ambiguities 187

13 Identity Derailed: The Echo Maker 203

VI Relatedness, Aging, and Generativity

14 Identity, Community, and Object Choice, Part I: Mrs. Dalloway and All Passion Spent 217

15 Identity, Community, and Object Choice, Part II: Possession 229

16 Aging and Death: The Map and the Territory, All Passion Spent, and The Sense of an Ending 241.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442231832

1442231831

OCLC:

899267712