A Spirit that Impels
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A Spirit that Impels

Play, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Spirit that Impels

Play, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis

About this book

This volume brings together some of the papers presented by leading scholars, artists and psychoanalysts at an annual Creativity Seminar organised by the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center. Looking at creativity through a psychoanalytic lens - and very importantly, vice versa - the authors examine great works, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Mahler's Eighth Symphony, and William Gibson's The Miracle Worker; as well as great artists, such as Van Gogh and Lennon and McCartney, for what we might learn about the creative process itself. Deepening this conversation are a number of clinical studies and other reflections on the creative process - in sickness and in health, so to speak. A central theme is that of "deep play", the level at which the artist may be unconsciously playing out, on behalf of all of us, the deepest dynamics of human emotion in order that we may leave the encounter not only emotionally spent, but profoundly informed as well.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9780367101688
eBook ISBN
9780429910500
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
History & Theory in Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Dedication
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. About the Editor and Contributors
  9. Introduction
  10. Introduction to Chapter One On (not) being able to paint: the 2003 Creativity Seminar
  11. Chapter One Creativity and psychoanalysis
  12. Introduction to Chapters Two and Three The Scarlet Letter—the artist and analyst as outsiders: the 2004 Creativity Seminar
  13. Chapter Two A moonlight visibility: turning The Scarlet Letter into a play
  14. Chapter Three Dimmesdale’s ailment, Hawthorne’s insight
  15. Introduction to Chapter Four Mahler, Freud, and the symphony of a thousand: the 2005 Creativity Seminar
  16. Chapter Four Sublimation and das Ding in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8
  17. Introduction to Chapter Five The play’s the thing: the 2006 Creativity Seminar
  18. Chapter Five Stepping on to the transference stage: from actualised unconscious trauma to therapeutic play
  19. Introduction to Chapter Six Creativity at the extremes: the 2007 Creativity Seminar
  20. Chapter Six Pattern as inspiration and mode of communication in the works of Van Gogh
  21. Introduction to Chapter Seven Chaos is come again—creativity, chaos and change: the 2008 Creativity Seminar
  22. Chapter Seven Photography as transitional functioning
  23. Introduction to Chapters Eight and Nine Miracle workers—transformation through creativity: the 2009 Creativity Seminar
  24. Chapter Eight To teach and to treat: meditations on The Miracle Worker
  25. Chapter Nine Unconscious creative activity and the restoration of reverie
  26. Introduction to Chapter Ten Creative collaborations: the 2010 Creativity Seminar
  27. Chapter Ten Two of us: inside the Lennon–McCartney connection
  28. Introduction to Chapter Eleven Finding voice, lifting voices—creativity and oppression: the 2011 Creativity Seminar
  29. Chapter Eleven Oppression, healing and Delia’s story
  30. Introduction to Chapter Twelve The brightening glance—creativity and childhood: the 2012 Creativity Seminar
  31. Chapter Twelve Snapshots of childhood creativity in science, music, and art: Richard Feynman, Clara Schumann, and René Magritte
  32. Afterword Tell me a story—creativity and storytelling: the 2013 Creativity Seminar
  33. Index