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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785891403321

Autore

Snell Robert <1951-, >

Titolo

Uncertainties, mysteries, doubts : Romanticism and the analytic attitude / / Robert Snell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-20519-5

1-283-60518-X

9786613917638

1-136-20520-9

0-203-09417-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

700/.4145

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis and the arts

Romanticism

Psychoanalysis - Philosophy

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Psychoanalysis and Romanticism: crisis, mourning and the mysteries of the ordinary; 2 The analytic attitude: an overview; 3 Goya and the dream of Enlightenment; 4 HoĢˆlderlin, Novalis, word without end; 5 Baudelaire and the malaise of modernity; 6 Dr Noir, the chevalier Dupin, and John Keats; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

What is it to listen? How do we hear? How do we allow meanings to emerge between each other?'This book is about what Freud called ""freely"" or ""evenly suspended attention"", a form of listening, a kind of receptive incomprehension, which is fundamental and mandatory for the practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. The author steps outside the usual parameters of psychoanalytic writing and explores how works of art and literature which elicit and require such listening began to appear in Europe, in abundance, from the late eighteenth-century onwards. Uncertain