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The aesthetic dimension of the mind : variations on a theme of Bion / Lia Pistiner de Cortinas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pistiner de Cortiñas, Lia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bion, Wilfred R. (Wilfred Ruprecht), 1897-1979.
- Bion, Wilfred R.
- Aesthetics--Psychological aspects.
- Aesthetics.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (446 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Karnac, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'This work constitutes an outstanding piece of Bion scholarship and interpretation. One comes away from it with a deep appreciation for the authors dreaming of Bion's work and for the light she has shined on many of Bions more recondite themes.'- James Grotstein MD, Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine
- Contents:
- Cover; Copy Right; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; PREFACE TO THE SPANISH EDITION; INTRODUCTION: The aesthetic dimension of the mind and becoming oneself; CHAPTER ONE: The psychic birth of emotional experience: the mental equipment for making contact and understanding the psychic reality; CHAPTER TWO: Dreams and lies: the discovery of psychic reality and the aesthetic dimension of the mind; CHAPTER THREE: Prenatal aspects of the mind: science and fiction in the psychoanalytical game; CHAPTER FOUR: Approaching truth and catastrophic change
- CHAPTER FIVE: Traversing caesuras and mental growth: a scientific exploration of insightCHAPTER SIX: Some thoughts on the extension of the psychoanalytic field in A Memoir of the Future; CHAPTER SEVEN: 2001: A Space Odyssey; CHAPTER EIGHT: The frozen autistic desert and the capacity to play: development of the aesthetic dimension of the mind; CHAPTER NINE: The gift of language in the autistic world: an exploration; APPENDIX: Glossary of some Bionian terms; REFERENCES; BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-429-92000-8
- 0-429-48100-4
- 1-282-77961-3
- 9786612779619
- 1-84940-690-1
- 9780429481000
- OCLC:
- 680628680
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