Art in psychoanalysis : a contemporary approach to creativity and analytic practice / edited by Gabriela Goldstein ; preface by Harold P. Blum ; general editor, Gennaro Saragnano.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goldstein, Gabriela.

Saragnano, Gennaro.

Series:

Psychoanalytic ideas and applications series.

Psychoanalytic ideas and applications series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A revolution is brewing in psychoanalysis: after a century of struggle to define psychoanalysis as a science, the concept of psychoanalysis as an art is finding expression in an unconventional 'return to Freud' that reformulates the relationship between art and psychoanalysis and in this process, discovers and explores uncharted routes through art to re-think problems in contemporary clinical work. This book explores recent contributions to the status of psychoanalytic thought in relation to art and creativity and the implications of these investigations for todays analytic practice. The title

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; PSYCHOANALYTIC IDEAS AND APPLICATIONS SERIES; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE Psychoanalysis and the arts; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Form and content in the visual arts: a psychoanalytic perspective; CHAPTER TWO Implicit "motion" in non-verbal art: transmission and transformation of affect; CHAPTER THREE Picasso's prolonged adolescence, his Blue Period, and blind figures; CHAPTER FOUR Psychoanalysis and art: from applied analysis to interdisciplinary dialogue; CHAPTER FIVE From a source to a fountain, or from the sublime to the uncanny

CHAPTER SIX Creative processes in art and psychoanalysis: moving towards an expanded metapsychologyCHAPTER SEVEN In between and across; CHAPTER EIGHT A fragment of the complex world: resorting to creation in the midst of negation, disavowal, and working through; CHAPTER NINE Living creatively: the concept of a sound-minded individual and the healing phenomena; CHAPTER TEN To heal or create, to create and heal: in search of their author; CHAPTER ELEVEN The greatest love of all; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-429-91096-7

0-429-47196-3

1-78241-102-X