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aesthetic
Aesthetic Conflict
Arthurian Epic
Author_Meg Harris Williams
Category=JMAF
Cold Hill Side
combined
Combined Object
conflict
countertransference analysis
Countertransference Dream
Donald Meltzer
Elfin Grot
emotional symbolism
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Fanny Brawne
Feminine Muse
Fingal's Cave
Fingal’s Cave
God Fathered
God Mother
Green Chapel
Green Knight
infant development
internal
La Belle
La Belle Dame Sans
literary aesthetics
lost
Meg Harris Williams
Melanie Klein
Milton's Lycidas
Miltonic Inversion
Milton’s Lycidas
nativity
Nativity Ode
object
objects
ode
Oedipus Tyrannos
paradise
Paradise Lost
psychoanalytic model of mind in literature
psychoanalytic theory
Rack Dislimns
Unpremeditated Verse
Verbal Cut
Wild Wild Eyes
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367105358
- Weight: 660g
- Dimensions: 146 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The post-Kleinian model of the mind, as developed by W. R. Bion and Donald Meltzer, is essentially an aesthetic one. It is founded on Melanie Klein's discovery of the "internal object" with its combined masculine and feminine qualities and ambiguous, awe-inspiring nature. Turbulent emotional experiences are repeatedly transformed through symbol-formation, on the basis of the internal relationship between the infant self and its object; and the aesthetic containment provided by this "counter-transference dream" (as Meltzer put it) enables the mind to digest its conflicts and develop.This search for a pattern that can make "contrary" emotions thinkable is modelled by all art forms and accounts for their universal significance. It is a process that can be observed particularly clearly in literature, in the form of the romance between the poet and his Muse (the traditional formulation of the psycho-analytic internal object).
Meg Harris Williams
