Uncertainties, mysteries, doubts : Romanticism and the analytic attitude / Robert Snell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snell, Robert, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and the arts.

Romanticism.

Psychoanalysis--Philosophy.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is it to listen? How do we hear? How do we allow meanings to emerge between each other?'This book is about what Freud called ""freely"" or ""evenly suspended attention"", a form of listening, a kind of receptive incomprehension, which is fundamental and mandatory for the practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. The author steps outside the usual parameters of psychoanalytic writing and explores how works of art and literature which elicit and require such listening began to appear in Europe, in abundance, from the late eighteenth-century onwards. Uncertain

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Psychoanalysis and Romanticism: crisis, mourning and the mysteries of the ordinary; 2 The analytic attitude: an overview; 3 Goya and the dream of Enlightenment; 4 Hölderlin, Novalis, word without end; 5 Baudelaire and the malaise of modernity; 6 Dr Noir, the chevalier Dupin, and John Keats; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-20519-5

1-283-60518-X

9786613917638

1-136-20520-9

0-203-09417-4

9780203094174

OCLC:

811505624