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The Story of Original Loss: Grieving Existential Trauma in the Arts and the Art of Psychoanalysis

English

By (author): Malcolm Owen Slavin PhD

This book explores the universal human existential trauma of original loss, a trauma the author describes as arising from our primal, human evolutionary loss of experiencing ourselves as innately belonging to, and instinctively at home within, the larger natural world.

In this trauma arose our existential awareness of impermanence and mortality along with the need to mourn that loss in order to create a sense of belonging and identity. The book describes how the invention of art and group ritual became the collective ways we mourn our shared existential loss. It describes as well how it is the art within the psychoanalytic practice that enables both patient and analyst to grieve their individual versions of our shared original loss. Drawing on the work of Winnicott, Loewald and Ogden, as well as art theory and religion, this book offers a new perspective on the intersection of metaphorical artistic thinking and psychoanalysis.

This book will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and scholars of poetic, visual and muscial metaphor, creativity, evolution and history of art.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 640g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 20 May 2024
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780367367077

About Malcolm Owen SlavinPhD

Malcolm Owen Slavin PhD is a founder faculty and supervisor at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and a director of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and the Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. A Yale graduate with a PhD in psychology from Harvard he has authored many papers including Why the Analyst Needs to Change and a book (with D. Kriegman) The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche: Psychoanalysis Evolutionary Biology and the Therapeutic Process.

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