LEADER 03826oam 2200637I 450 001 9910785488603321 005 20230814231900.0 010 $a0-429-92267-1 010 $a0-429-90844-X 010 $a0-429-48367-8 010 $a1-282-90065-X 010 $a9786612900655 010 $a1-84940-498-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9780429483677 035 $a(CKB)2670000000056309 035 $a(EBL)690247 035 $a(OCoLC)723945246 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000488195 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11309514 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000488195 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10449810 035 $a(PQKB)10488939 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC690247 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL690247 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10428139 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL290065 035 $a(OCoLC)1029242296 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000056309 100 $a20180706d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe vale of soulmaking $ethe post-Kleinian model of the mind /$fMeg Harris Williams 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-367-10535-7 311 $a1-85575-310-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 241-243) and index. 327 $aCOVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD Psychoanalysis acknowledges its poetic forebears and joins the artistic family; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE The stroke of the axe; CHAPTER TWO The evolution of Psyche; CHAPTER THREE Milton as Muse; CHAPTER FOUR The fall and rise of Eve; CHAPTER FIVE Oedipus at the crossroads; CHAPTER SIX The weavings of Athene; CHAPTER SEVEN Cleopatra's monument; CHAPTER EIGHT Creativity and the countertransference; CHAPTER NINE Post-Kleinian poetics; APPENDIX A Rosemary's roots; Confessions of an emmature superego or, the Ayah's lament; REFERENCES; BIBLIOGRAPHY 327 $aINDEX 330 $a"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). This book explores the "counter-transference dreams" of some of the inspired symbol-makers who have been most influential in forming the modern aesthetic perspective in psychoanalytic thinking, including Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Homer and Sophocles. It concludes with a discussion of Bion's autobiographical works, which are the final expression of his own conception of the aesthetic model."--Provided by publisher. 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPsychoanalysis and literature 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPsychoanalysis and literature. 676 $a820.9/353 700 $aWilliams$b Meg Harris$f1951-$0166210 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785488603321 996 $aThe vale of soulmaking$93854826 997 $aUNINA