Aesthetic Development - The Poetic Spirit of Psychoanalysis: Essays on Bion, Meltzer, Keats

The Poetic Spirit of Psychoanalysis Essays on Bion Meltzer Keats. Deeply versed in the opus of Bion and Meltzer, the author enhances the concept of catastrophic change. This title demonstrates the human capacity for symbolic thinking that underlies literary, artistic and psychoanalytic creativity.

List of contents

Introduction , 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 , Afterword

About the author

Meg Harris Williams

Summary

Deeply versed in the opus of Bion and Meltzer, the author enhances the concept of 'catastrophic change'. This title demonstrates the human capacity for symbolic thinking that underlies literary, artistic and psychoanalytic creativity.

Product details

• Authors: Meg Harris Williams, Williams Meg Harris
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367106133
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10613-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis