1st Edition

Psychoanalysis and Art Kleinian Perspectives

By Donald Meltzer, Sandra Gosso Copyright 2004
    320 Pages
    by Routledge

    320 Pages
    by Routledge

    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 and was developed further by Melanie Klein at a time when most analysts were moving away from links with art. Melanie Klein's pivotal paper, "Infantile Anxiety Situations Reflected in a Work of Art and in the Creative Impulse", follows the Introduction. The other papers featured are mainly from British analysts who expanded on Melanie Klein's ideas, inspired by the influence of the creative Bloomsbury and Imago Groups.

    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

    Biography

    Donald Meltzer