1. Coming into being as artist and psychotherapist : keeping self from falling together too soon / Karen M. Schwartz -- 2. To build a new world : creative and aesthetic choices in psychoanalysis / David Shaddock -- 3. Making waves / Linda Cummings -- 4. Shame and its undoing : a…
Psychoanalysis and art: Kleinian perspectives
This volume brings together a collection of classic papers from key figures in Kleinian and post-Kleinian thought that explore the relationship between psychoanalysis and art. Sandra Gosso begins with a guide to the history of this relationship which began with Freud and was dev…
A collection of classic Kleinian and post-Kleinian essays on the relationship between psychoanalysis and art with works by Melanie Klein, Hanna Segal, Joan Riviere, Marion Milner, Adrian Stokes, Donald Meltzer, Meg Harris Williams and Margot Waddell.
1. Appearance -- 2. Presence -- 3. Absence -- 4. Destruction -- 5. The hidden self -- 6. The emotional landscape -- 7. Emotional communication -- 8. Empathy and interpretation -- 9. Creativity and greed -- 10. Creating a world.