Creative Envy: The Rescue of One of Civilization's Major Forces - Softcover

Carlos Amadeu Botelho Byington

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888602309 ISBN 13: 9781888602302

Publisher: Chiron Publications, 2004

Synopsis

Based on Jungian symbolic psychology, this book attributes an archetypal foundation to the ego defense mechanisms of psychoanalysis and describes the possibility that all psychological functions are creative or defensive. Analyzing Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus, Byington describes envy as functioning creatively and defensively in the relationship between Mozart and Salieri. He demonstrates how psychoanalysis followed the biblical book of Genesis and the Christian doctrine of original sin and "scientifically" stigmatized envy. He asserts that this bias originated in severe cultural pathology, which greatly distorted the Christian myth by repressing creative envy because of its extraordinary revolutionary potential for individual and cultural development.

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About the Author

Carlos Amadeu Botelho Byington, M.D., is a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst, graduated at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich and founding member of the Brazilian Society for Analytical Psychology. He is the author of numerous books, including Jungian Symbolic Education; The Development of Personality; Structure of Personality: Persona and Shadow; Symbolic Dimensions of Personality, as well as many articles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chiron Publications
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1888602309
• ISBN 13: 9781888602302
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 150