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Aesthetic Conflict
Author_Meg Harris Williams
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Bosom Friend
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Catastrophic Change
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change
Christ Child
Clammy Cells
Close Bosom Friend
Combined Object
conflict
countertransference
Countertransference Dream
dream
Epistemophilic Urge
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Escapist Drug
Flowery Tale
Formless Infinite
Grecian Urn
literary creativity
Meg Harris Williams
Melodious Plot
Mental Development
object
Paradise Lost
Poetic Mentality
post-Kleinian perspective
psychoanalysis and artistic inspiration
psychoanalytic theory
religious
Religious Vertex
Roger Money Kyrle
Scientific Vertex
sleeping
Sleeping Beauty
Symbolic Congruence
symbolic thinking
transference analysis
unconscious processes
Unravished Bride
vertex
Viewless Wings
Wailful Choir
Product details
- ISBN 9780367106133
- Weight: 570g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Few people would be better qualified than the author to write this innovative and eagerly anticipated post-Kleinian book. Deeply versed in the opus of Bion and Meltzer, the author enhances the concept of "catastrophic change". The analyst who "eschews memory and desire" observes the subtle interplay of transference and countertransference (Meltzer's "counter dreaming") as it works through aesthetic conflicts. The ensuing reciprocity of the patients and analysts unconscious is revealed as the aesthetical and ethical basis of psychoanalysis. In that sense the psychoanalytical process parallels that of poetic and artistic inspiration. They are all generated by creative internal objects. Harris Williams' intellectual tour de force demonstrates convincingly the human capacity for symbolic thinking that underlies literary, artistic and psychoanalytic creativity. Her encyclopaedic understanding of literature, art and psychoanalysis contributes to this book's virtuosity.'- Irene Freeden, Senior Member of the British Association of Psychotherapists
Meg Harris Williams
