Dying and Creating - A Search for Meaning

A Search for Meaning. Dying and creating or, could we put it the other way round, creating and dying?nbspThe authornbsphas chosen the first, the challenging title and the one that stimulates the reader to find out how they inter-relate. There are essential links between the facts and the concepts.

List of contents

Editorial introduction , Introduction , Part I , Social attitudes to death: a brief survey , Freud, Jung and the death wish , On the threshold of death: a pilot study of four dying patients , The birth of death: some African stories , Rites for the dead , Psychopathological ways of dealing with death , Part II , Symbols and symbol formation: the crux of meaningful dying and creating , Reflections on clinical technique resulting from a review of the nature of symbolisation , Part III , The nature of the creative process , Psychological functions in the service of the creative process , Hindrances to the creative process , Death, creation and transformation: their intra-psychic interdependence , Summary , Postscript

About the author

Rosemary Gordon

Summary

Dying and creating or, could we put it the other way round, creating and dying? The author has chosen the first, the challenging title and the one that stimulates the reader to find out how they inter-relate. There are essential links between the facts and the concepts.

Product details

• Authors: Rosemary Gordon, Gordon Rosemary
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367105051
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10505-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: The Library of Analytical Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis