Psychoanalytic Engagement With the Arts - Culture and Kulturarbeit

A Psychoanalytic Engagement with the Arts applies Freud's anthropological writing and theories to contemporary works of fiction and poetry.

List of contents

Acknowledgements General Introduction 1. The work of culture, the being of nature 2. For a psychoanalytic perspective on the malaise of the culture 3. The universally human 4. Believe, do not believe me 5. Characters: fictional, realistic, verisimilar, plausible 6. Ideals in a world without fathers 7. Americanah: the blogger, the humorist 8. The intermittent epiphanies of trauma: The melancholic discourse of the trilingual poet Amelia Rosselli

About the author

Giuseppina Antinucci is a Fellow of the BPAS and a Full Member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. She divides her time between Milan and London, while also teaching widely in the U.K and abroad. She is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and Routledge's New Library of Psychoanalysis series, and is a member of the organizing committee of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival, and has authored several articles and book chapters on the intersection of psychoanalysis and the arts.

Product details

• Authors: Giuseppina Antinucci
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032696942
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3269694-2
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; ART / Criticism & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, PHOTOGRAPHY / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Literary theory, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis