The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers - Softcover

Kavaler-Adler, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 189274659X ISBN 13: 9781892746597

Publisher: Other Press LLC, 2000

Synopsis

"A magnificent book that analyzes prominent female writers (Plath, Nin, The Brontes, Dickinson, and Sitwell) from a psychoanalytic self/object relations point of view . . . a must read for all."

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Synopsis

In psychobiographies of six famous women writers, the founder of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis analyzes the role of the idealized male muse (often the Oedipal father) in the creativity of Nin, Plath, Charlotte and Emily Brontd, Dickinson, and Sitwell. First published by Routledge. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,

Edition details

• Publisher: Other Press LLC
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 189274659X
• ISBN 13: 9781892746597
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368