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Psychoanalysis and art Kleinian perspectives

This essential edition brings together a collection of classic papers from key figures in Kleinian and post-Kleinian thought that explore the relationship between psychoanalysis and art. Sandra Gosso begins with a comprehensive and fascinating guide to the history of this relationship which began with Freud.
Print Book, English, 2004
Karnac, London [u.a.], 2004
XXV, 301 S.
9781855759688, 1855759683
1068951269
Preface , Introduction , Art as Reparation , Infantile anxiety-situations reflected in a work of art and in the creative impulse , A psycho-analytical approach to aesthetics , Three unconscious phantasy of an inner world reflected in examples from literature , The role of illusion in symbol formation , The invitation in art , Post-Kleinian Thought , The apprehension of beauty , The delusion of clarity of insight , The relation of dreaming to learning from experience in patient and analyst , The aesthetic object , Concerning the perception of one's own attributes and its relation to language development , On turbulence , Dénouement , Aesthetic conflict: its place in the developmental process , The place of aesthetic conflict in the analytic process , New considerations on the concept of the aesthetic conflict , The geographic dimension of the mental apparatus , The compartments of the internal mother , Disorders of thought , The lobby of dreams , Aesthetic appreciation through symbolic congruence , Keats: soul-making , Entry to the claustrum , Parallel directions in psychoanalysis