Art and Psychoanalysis - Between the Dialectics of the Other and Poetic Estrangement

This book explores the concept of estrangement from a psychoanalytic perspective, intertwining art and aesthetics to offer a paradigm of the aesthetic experience.

List of contents

1. The Concept of Estrangement, Art and Aesthetics 2. The Aesthetic Experience at the Beginning of the Psyche 3. The Other in Art and the Dynamics of Estrangement 4. Destinies and Estrangements: Hysteria, Narcissism and Melancholia 5. Estrangement and Creativity, the Cure at Stake

About the author

, PhD, is a training analyst of International Psychoanalytical Association and FEPAL and the former president of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. She is the author of several books including Art in Psychoanalysis and an architect and painter.

Product details

• Authors: Gabriela Goldstein, Goldstein Gabriela
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 03.11.2025
• EAN: 9781032969787
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3296978-7
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: The International Psychoanalytical Association Current Challenges in Psychoanalysis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; The arts: general issues, ART / Criticism & Theory, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, History of art / art & design styles, Psychotherapy, History of Art, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), The arts: general topics, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis