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The aesthetic development the poetic spirit of psychoanalysis : essays on Bion, Meltzer, Keats Meg Harris Williams
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Meg Harris, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Keats, John, 1795-1821.
- Psychoanalysis and philosophy.
- Aesthetics--Psychological aspects.
- Aesthetics.
- Bion, Wilfred R. (Wilfred Ruprecht), 1897-1979.
- Bion, Wilfred R.
- Meltzer, Donald.
- Keats, John, 1795-1821--Criticism and interpretation.
- Keats, John.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 200 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Karnac, 2010.
- London Karnac 2010
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 'Few people would be better qualified than Meg Harris Williams to write this innovative and eagerly anticipated post-Kleinian book. Deeply versed in the opus of Bion and Meltzer, Harris Williams enhances the concept of ""catastrophic change"". The analyst who ""eschews memory and desire"" observes the subtle interplay of transference and countertransference (Meltzer's ""counter dreaming"") as it works through aesthetic conflicts. The ensuing reciprocity of the patients and analysts unconscious is revealed as the aesthetical and ethical basis of psychoanalysis. In that sense the psychoanalytica
- Contents:
- Psychoanalysis : an art or a science?
- Aesthetic concepts of Bion and Meltzer
- The domain of the aesthetic object
- Sleeping beauty
- Moving beauty
- Psychoanalysis as an art form
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index
- ISBN:
- 185575617X
- 9781855756175
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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