Art in Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Approach to Creativity and Analytic Practice (The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series) - Softcover

Goldstein, Gabriela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782200037 ISBN 13: 9781782200031

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

A revolution is brewing in psychoanalysis: after a century of struggle to define psychoanalysis as a science, the concept of psychoanalysis as an art is finding expression in an unconventional 'return to Freud' that reformulates the relationship between art and psychoanalysis and in this process, discovers and explores uncharted routes through art to re-think problems in contemporary clinical work. This book explores recent contributions to the status of psychoanalytic thought in relation to art and creativity and the implications of these investigations for todays analytic practice. The title, 'Art in Psychoanalysis', reflects its double perspective: art and its contributions to theory and clinical practice on the one hand, and the response from psychoanalysis and its "interpretation" of art. These essays expose the "aesthetic value of analytic work when it is able to 'create' something new in the relation with the patient". The authors surprise the reader with an immense array of fresh and stimulating hypotheses which reflect the originality of their own creative process that has overturned ideas including the 'application of psychoanalysis' to art and the entity of the object of art.

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About the Author

Gabriela Goldstein is a practicing psychoanalyst, a full member and training analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association and representative on the Board, and a past member of the Publications Committee. She is also a member of the Psychoanalysis and Culture Committee of the IPA, and the author of 'The Aesthetic Experience: Writings on Art and Psychoanalysis', as well as various articles and book chapters on the subjects of art, love and sexuality. She received the Baranger-Mom award in 2003, and the Storni award in 2004. She is also an architect and a painter.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782200037
• ISBN 13: 9781782200031
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224