Shimmering Landscape - The Imaginative and Actual in Psychic Life

Acclaimed Winnicott scholar Dodi Goldman offers an intriguing account of the psyche's work of imaginative elaboration. This volume is essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, humanities scholars, and anyone curious about the fragile alliance between the imaginative and actual in human experience.

List of contents

1."Life is a Dream, 'Tis Waking That Kills Us" 2. Lion-Man 3. Night Tree Silhouettes 4. Baby new to Earth and Sky 5. Rama playing 6. What do we talk about when we talk about agression? 7. Magritte and the use of an object 8. Are we virtuoso storytellers? 9. "But she talks just like I write" 10. Paracosms in the parsonage 11. Coda

About the author

Dodi Goldman is Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute in New York. His previous books include In Search of the Real: The Origins and Originality of D.W. Winnicott and A Beholder’s Share: Essays on Winnicott and the Clinical Imagination, which won the 2017 Gradiva Award for Best Book in Psychoanalysis.

Summary

Acclaimed Winnicott scholar Dodi Goldman offers an intriguing account of the psyche’s work of imaginative elaboration. This volume is essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, humanities scholars, and anyone curious about the fragile alliance between the imaginative and actual in human experience.

Product details

• Authors: Dodi Goldman, Goldman Dodi
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032889900
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3288990-0
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis