Here I''m Alive - The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis

Writing in collaboration, three psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the essential role of music in psychical life. Through an interdisciplinary exploration, Here I'm Alive shows how music is fundamental to becoming human, establishing our embodied sense of membership and participation in a shared world through the fabric of culture.

List of contents

Preface: Liner Notes
Side A
1. The Body’s Way of Dreaming
2. The Rhythm of the Heat
3. Mind Waves
4. Learning to Live Together
5. The Living Frame
Side B
6. Re-membering, Re-beating, and Worlding-Through
7. Strange Loop
8. This Is How We Do It
9. The Art Teacher
10. Old Foundations in Psychoanalysis
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

About the author

Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michael Levin are members of the Bay Area psychoanalytic community.

Summary

Here I’m Alive explores the musical foundation of being human from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Writing in collaboration, three psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the essential role of music in psychical life. Through an interdisciplinary exploration, Here I’m Alive shows how music is fundamental to becoming human, establishing our embodied sense of membership and participation in a shared world through the fabric of culture. With one authorial voice, these pages resonate with the musical forms of living that make possible any individual style of conduct or shape of desire and without which we are forever lost in the noise.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Blum, Adam Goldberg Blum, Blum Adam, Peter Goldberg, Michael Levin, Levin Michael
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.2023
• EAN: 9780231209458
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20945-8
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Music, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, MUSIC / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis