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The aesthetic development : the poetic spirit of psychoanalysis : essays on Bion, Meltzer, Keats / Meg Harris Williams

Author
Williams, Meg Harris, 1951-
Published
London : Karnac, 2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxiv, 200 pages)
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Language Note
English.
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.
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 psychoanalytical process parallels that of poetic and artistic inspiration. They are all generated by creative internal objects. Harris Williams' intellectual tour de force demonstrates convincingly the human capacity for symbolic thinking that underlies literary, artistic and psychoanalytic creativity. Her encyclopaedic understanding of literature, art and psychoanalysis contributes to this book's virtuosity
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9781849407953 (electronic bk.)
1849407959 (electronic bk.)
9780429905766 (e-book ; PDF) (e-book ; PDF)
0429905769
9780429934223 (e-book ; PDF) (e-book ; Mobi)
042993422X
1282779648
9781282779648
9786612779640
6612779640
0429480997
9780429480997
9781855756175
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index.
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