Dreams and Dramas - Psychoanalytic Criticism, Creativity and the Artist

Klappentext This work charts pathways in psychoanalytic thinking about art and the artist, revising views held in applied psychoanalysis and adding new dimensions to clinical thinking about the artist and the artistic process. Roland investigates identity issues and inner struggles involved in the developing artistic career. In the second section he focuses on the use of imagery by artists in the creative formation of poetic metaphors and paradoxes, and the metaphorical portrayal of the artist's inner world. In a challenge to a pervasive assumption in psychoanalysis Roland argues that aesthetic form develops primarily to convey the artwork's autonomous meanings rather than to give disguised expression to the artist's inner world. In a third section Roland explores these themes in the context of the dramatic work of Pirandello and Pinter. Zusammenfassung `In this groundbreaking book, Alan Roland's stated purpose it to integrate psychoanalysis with art and the artist. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE - THE ARTIST AND THE ARTISTIC PROCESS Psychoanalytic Therapy With the Career Artist The Artistic Self and Artists¿ Selfobjects and Transformative Objects Relational Perspectives on the Artistic Process PART TWO - DREAMS, IMAGERY, AND CREATIVITY The Context and Unique Function of Dreams in Psychoanalytic Therapy Imagery and Symbolic Expression in Dreams and Art Imagery and the Self in Artisitc Creativity PART THREE - PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM Toward a Reorientation of Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism Psychoanalysis in Search of Pirandello - Alan Roland and Gino Rizzo Six Characters and >Pinter¿s Homecoming Imagoes in Dramatic Action Reflections An Afterword

Product details

• Authors: Alan Roland, Roland Alan
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2002
• EAN: 9780826455666
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-5566-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Disseminations: Psychoanalysis in Context; Disseminations: Psychoanalysis in Context; Disseminations: Psychoanalysis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Theory of art, ART / Criticism & Theory, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, Counseling & Psychotherapy;Psychoanalysis