1. John Nash : reason's approach to an alternative reality / Murray Jackson -- 2. Vaslav Nijinsky : living for the eyes of the other / Murray Jackson -- 3. Jose Saramago : sanity and the overcoming of adversity / Murray Jackson -- 4. Vincent van Gogh : enduring unrequited love /…
"Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People tells the story of the lives of four exceptionally gifted individuals: Vincent van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, Jose Saramago and John Nash. Previously unpublished chapters by Murray Jackson are set in a contextual framework by Je…
"Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People tells the story of the lives of four exceptionally gifted individuals: Vincent van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, Jose Saramago and John Nash. Previously unpublished chapters by Murray Jackson are set in a contextual framework by Je…
Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People tells the story of the lives of four exceptionally gifted individuals: Vincent van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, José Saramago and John Nash. Previously unpublished chapters by Murray Jackson are set in a contextual framework by Jea…
1. Considering "The 'uncanny'"--2. Louise Bourgeois and Franz Kafka : of lairs and burrows -- 3. Kafka meets Borges : from geography to temporality -- 4. Juan Munoz and Anish Kapoor : of drums, double binds and non-objects -- 5. From churches to sculptures : The matter of time a…
Interest in the relationship between psychoanalysis and art - and other disciplines - is growing. In this book, Gregorio Kohon examines and reflects upon psychoanalytic understandings of estrangement, the Freudian notions of the uncanny and Nachtraglichkeit, exploring how these …
The current resurgence of interest in the scientific origins of psychoanalysis has overshadowed the artistic and literary models to which Freud had recourse time and again in the development and presentation of his theories. It is this neglected aesthetic wellspring of psychoana…
