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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785440903321

Autore

Williams Meg Harris <1951->

Titolo

The aesthetic development : the poetic spirit of psychoanalysis : essays on Bion, Meltzer, Keats / / Meg Harris Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Karnac, , 2010

ISBN

0-429-91999-9

0-429-48099-7

1-282-77964-8

9786612779640

1-84940-795-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Disciplina

150.19/5

150.1952

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis and philosophy

Aesthetics - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-194) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Psychoanalysis : an art or a science? -- Aesthetic concepts of Bion and Meltzer -- The domain of the aesthetic object -- Sleeping beauty -- Moving beauty -- Psychoanalysis as an art form.

Sommario/riassunto

'Few people would be better qualified than Meg Harris Williams to write this innovative and eagerly anticipated post-Kleinian book. Deeply versed in the opus of Bion and Meltzer, Harris Williams 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 psychoanalytica