Women and creativity : a psychoanalytic glimpse through art, literature, and social structure / Frances Thomson-Salo, Laura Tognoli Pasquali.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomson Salo, Frances, author.

Contributor:

Thomson Salo, Frances, editor.

Tognoli Pasquali, Laura, editor.

Series:

Psychoanalysis & women series.

Psychoanalysis & Women Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Psychological aspects.

Art.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychotherapy.

Women artists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 p.)

Edition:

1st.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This latest book in the Psychoanalysis and Women series includes writings from practising psychoanalysts mainly from Italy and Europe. They take a wide sweep in exploring many aspects of women's creativity with an emphasis throughout the chapters the contribution of dreaming to creativity. It takes as its starting point creativity in clinical work in the consulting room, and puts forward new perspectives on psychoanalytic theory. The focus then turns to creativity in the life cycle, particularly when there are delays and difficulties in becoming pregnant, as well as the everyday creativity in

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; PART I CREATIVITY IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; CHAPTER ONE Creativity and authenticity; CHAPTER TWO Discussion of "Creativity and authenticity" by Irma Brenman Pick; CHAPTER THREE Listening, technique, and all that jazz; CHAPTER FOUR William, did you say, "Much Ado about Nothing"?; CHAPTER FIVE Discussion of "William, did you say: 'Much Ado about Nothing'?" by Juan Eduardo Tesone; CHAPTER SIX Female elements and functions in creativity; CHAPTER SEVEN Women and creativity

PART II CREATIVITY IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICE THROUGHOUT THE LIFE CYCLECHAPTER EIGHT When creativity restarts: distorted and adaptive forms; CHAPTER NINE A little girl's analysis; CHAPTER TEN A psychoanalyst in the labour room: the birth of emotions; CHAPTER ELEVEN Generativity and creativity: dialogue between an obstetrician and a psychoanalyst; CHAPTER TWELVE Dreaming about pregnancy when it is not there: two clinical cases; CHAPTER THIRTEEN A particular kind of sterility; CHAPTER FOURTEEN Discussion of "A particular kind of sterility" by Jones de Luca

CHAPTER FIFTEEN "With you I can bleat my heart out"- older women in psychoanalytic practicePART III CREATIVITY IN THE ARTS AND LITERATURE; CHAPTER SIXTEEN Using contents from a sewing box: some aspects of the artwork of Sonia Delaunay and Louise Bourgeois; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Commentary on Brodeuses; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The voice of the mother in To the Lighthouse; PART IV LIVING CREATIVELY IN SOCIETY; CHAPTER NINETEEN Happily ever after: depictions of coming of age in fairy tales; CHAPTER TWENTY Cultural altruism and masochism in women in the East

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Horses and other animals: some background obstacles to female creativity in RussiaCHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Is healing possible for women survivors of domestic violence?; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE No peaceable woman: creativity in feminist political psychoanalysis-commemorating Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen (17.7.1917-12.6.2012); CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Should we as psychoanalysts apologise to women?; I. Maria Pia Conte; II. Laura Tognoli Pasquali; AFTERWORD; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 1, 2014).

ISBN:

9780429924170

0429924178

9780429909948

0429909942

9780367329822

0367329824

9780429485176

0429485174

9781782412397

1782412395

OCLC:

877038742