Aesthetic Conflict And Its Clinical Relevance

Author : Meg Harris Williams
Publisher : Phoenix Publishing House
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781912567058

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Aesthetic Conflict and its Clinical Relevance by Meg Harris Williams Pdf

Donald Meltzer coined the term 'aesthetic conflict' to describe the emotional complexities of the 'apprehension of beauty'. It had its roots in art, literature, infant observation, and above all, in clinical experience. This concept affirmed and illustrated Bion's formula of L, H, K (Love, Hate, and Knowledge), together with its negative (minus L, H, K) as a revision of Klein's fundamental emotional dynamics of Envy and Gratitude. As such, any emotional situation may be read in terms of either struggling with or retreating from the aesthetic conflict that occurs naturally at all key points of psychic development. Meltzer could be said to have encapsulated the essence of Bion's post-Kleinian trajectory when he wrote that 'If we follow Bion's thought closely, we see that the new idea presents itself as an emotional experience of the beauty of the world and its wondrous organisation.' The contributions in this book are by analysts and therapists from a wide variety of countries working with both children and adults. They have all, in individual ways, found 'aesthetic conflict' a useful frame of reference in terms of illuminating the significance of clinical observation, understanding countertransference responses, or practising the psychoanalytic method itself.

Author : Donald Meltzer,Meg Harris Williams
Publisher : Phoenix Publishing House
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781912567089

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The Apprehension of Beauty by Donald Meltzer,Meg Harris Williams Pdf

This volume has grown over the years as a family project of Martha Harris, her two daughters Meg and Morag and her husband, Donald Meltzer. It therefore has its roots in English literature and its branches waving wildly about in psychoanalysis. It is earnestly hoped that it will reveal more problems than it will solve.

Author : Dorothy Hamilton
Publisher : Phoenix Publishing House
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781912567799

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A Place for Beauty in the Therapeutic Encounter by Dorothy Hamilton Pdf

A Place for Beauty in the Therapeutic Encounter is written for all psychotherapists, counsellors, and psychologists who practise under the broad banner of psychoanalytic thinking. It is also for anyone who loves beauty and wants to think more about its place in the mind.

Author : Donald Meltzer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429913471

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Exploring the Work of Donald Meltzer by Donald Meltzer Pdf

This book is a tribute to Donald Melzer's extraordinary contribution to psychoanalysis. It includes many of the papers given at the Tavistock Centre in London to celebrate Meltzer's 75th Birthday. Among the contributions, Margaret Rustin and Michael Rustin write on the work of Samuel Beckett; Gianna Williams elaborates upon Meltzer's thinking about the meeting of mother and baby; Didier Houzel discusses the aesthetic conflict and its connection with beauty and violence; and the Psychoanalytic Group of Barcelona describe their experience in working with Meltzer as a visiting supervisor. There are also several papers discussing the clinical relevance of Meltzer's thinking, particularly in work with children and adolescents.Apart from these papers, the book also contains a candid review by Meltzer of his own writing and thinking. This book provides a unique set of perspectives on his work and influence, and the sheer diversity of fields in which his thinking is now being used. It will surely be of continuing value to anyone interested in the state of psychoanalysis

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Harris Meltzer Trust
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1782203885

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Clinical Uses of Aesthetic Conflict by Anonim Pdf

Author : Moore Michelle E. Moore
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474462068

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ReFocus: The Films of Paul Schrader by Moore Michelle E. Moore Pdf

Offers the first comprehensive academic text to explore Paul Schrader's film career through analysis of his directing, screenwriting, and film criticismContains a chapter-length interview, in which Schrader examines the arc of his career for the first time and revises previous statements about filmmaking and film criticismProvides a valuable update to previous texts on SchraderConsiders Schrader's overlooked films and provides new insight into their connections with Schrader's better known filmsContains chapters on Schrader's work since 2008, the publication date of the last book on his filmmakingPaul Schrader's unique relationship to the role of the author (as screenwriter, director and critic) has long informed his cinema, and raises complicated questions about the definition of the auteur. This volume of essays - one of the first collections to assess Schrader's contributions to directing, screenwriting and criticism - includes the first original appraisals of his much-lauded masterpiece First Reformed (2017), as well as a chapter-length interview with Schrader himself, conducted by the editors. Providing a comprehensive exploration of his groundbreaking achievements in cinema, the book considers Schrader's more overlooked films and provides new insights to their connection with his celebrated work in direction and screenwriting such as Taxi Driver (1976), Cat People (1982) and The Comfort of Strangers (1990).

Author : Libby Henik,Lewis Aron
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000964028

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Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought by Libby Henik,Lewis Aron Pdf

Demonstrating the connections between contemporary psychoanalysis, Jewish thought and Jewish history, this volume is a significant contribution to the traditions of dialogue, debate and change-within-continuity that epitomize these disciplines. The authors of this volume explore the cross-disciplinary connections between psychoanalysis and Jewish thought, while seeking out the resonance of new meanings, to exemplify the uncanny similarities that exist between ancient Rabbinic methods of interpretation and contemporary psychoanalytic theory and methodology, particularly the centrality of the question and the deconstruction of narrative. In doing so, this collaboration addresses the bi-directional influence between, and the relevance of, the Jewish interpretive tradition and psychoanalysis to provide readers with renewed insight into key topics such as Biblical text and midrash, religious traditions, trauma, gender, history, clinical work and the legacies of the Holocaust on psychoanalytic theory. Creating an intimate environment for interdisciplinary dialogue, this is an essential book for students, scholars and clinicians alike, who seek to understand the continued significance of the multiple connections between psychoanalysis and Jewish thought.

Author : Meg Harris Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000478310

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Donald Meltzer by Meg Harris Williams Pdf

In this intelligent and insightful work, Meg Harris Williams presents a clear and readable introduction to the works of influential psychoanalyst Donald Meltzer. The book covers Meltzer’s ideas on key themes including sexuality, dreams, psychosis, perversion and aesthetics, and his work with both children and adults. This book focuses especially on Meltzer’s views on the nature of psychoanalysis itself, as an investigative method conducted by the cooperation between two people. His intuitive understanding of dreams is underscored by a scholarly interest in philosophy and linguistics. The book will give readers a window into Meltzer’s clinical seminars and supervisions, as well as a comprehensive overview of his published work, all thoughtfully brought together by someone who worked with Meltzer for many years. Bringing Meltzer’s ideas into contemporary context, this fresh approach to his work makes his rich and complex theories about our inner world accessible to all. Part of the Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis series, this book will be of great importance to psychoanalysts, clinicians and scholars familiar with Meltzer’s ideas, as well as those seeking an introduction to his work.

Author : Donald Meltzer,Meg Harris Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : LCCN:00551253

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The Apprehension of Beauty by Donald Meltzer,Meg Harris Williams Pdf

Author : Giuseppe Civitarese
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781442239494

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Losing Your Head by Giuseppe Civitarese Pdf

Losing Your Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism looks at the subject of beheading in art as a trope of the destruction of the mind. This book discusses both psychoanalytic theory and art criticism. It addresses critics, readers, and spectators interested in the keys of interpretation that psychoanalysis can offer, and analysts who are curious to know if artists can help them refine the tools they use every day. It asks whether artists have something to say about the concepts of reverie and negative reverie or about change as aesthetic transformation, and about aesthetic experience as a paradigm of what is most true and most profound in analysis. Why write about beheading? Many art galleries feature paintings of heroines performing this cruel act: Delilah, Salome, Judith, Yael, and others. At the antithesis to this, there is another theme to be found in painting that consistently garners attention: namely, the so-called “Sacred Conversation,” in which the Madonna holds a small child in her lap and their gazes cross. The first scene depicts how a mind is destroyed, the second how it is born. Losing Your Head analyzes well-known artwork from classical literature, cinema, and contemporary art to enhance psychoanalytic understanding.

Author : Donald Meltzer
Publisher : Phoenix Publishing House
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781912567263

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A Meltzer Reader by Donald Meltzer Pdf

Donald Meltzer was a distinguished psychoanalyst and one of Klein's most productive and prominent analysands. He was a very influential teacher internationally and an extraordinary practitioner and theorist as well. He codified Kleinian technique, was innovative in the treatment of autistic children, and was the foremost metapsychologist for Klein's and Bion's works. Of his many outstanding contributions, The Apprehension of Beauty, which he co-authored with Meg Harris Williams, heralded a new age in psychoanalysis by providing its aesthetic perspective in relation to that of infant development.

Author : Donald Meltzer
Publisher : Harris Meltzer Trust
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781912567911

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Selected Papers of Donald Meltzer - Vol. 3 by Donald Meltzer Pdf

The contents of the three volumes are grouped not chronologically but under the headings of 'Personality and Family Structure', 'Philosophy and History of Psychoanalysis', and 'The Psychoanalytic Process and the Analyst'. Together they present his interpretation of the 'Kleinian development' from Freud, through Abraham and Klein, to Bion and the post-Kleinian model; and within this evolution, his view of the natural history of the psychoanalytic process, the aesthetics of the method, and his insights into the operation of the transference and countertransference. Meltzer saw the psychoanalytic process as a new method that contributes alongside more traditional art-forms to our scientific knowledge of the mind. Working with both adults and children, he viewed psychoanalysis in developmental rather than narrowly therapeutic terms, with potential for both analyst and analysand. All his theories derived from clinical work, above all from dream-reading and children's phantasy play; and owing to his extensive international teaching experience, his own material was enriched by that of many supervisees. This collection of papers, read as a whole, invites new readers to follow and partake in what he called 'the most interesting conversation in the world'.

Author : Donald Meltzer
Publisher : Harris Meltzer Trust
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781912567881

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Selected Papers of Donald Meltzer - Vol. 2 by Donald Meltzer Pdf

The contents of the three volumes are grouped not chronologically but under the headings of 'Personality and Family Structure', 'Philosophy and History of Psychoanalysis', and 'The Psychoanalytic Process and the Analyst'. Together they present his interpretation of the 'Kleinian development' from Freud, through Abraham and Klein, to Bion and the post-Kleinian model; and within this evolution, his view of the natural history of the psychoanalytic process, the aesthetics of the method, and his insights into the operation of the transference and countertransference. Meltzer saw the psychoanalytic process as a new method that contributes alongside more traditional art-forms to our scientific knowledge of the mind. Working with both adults and children, he viewed psychoanalysis in developmental rather than narrowly therapeutic terms, with potential for both analyst and analysand. All his theories derived from clinical work, above all from dream-reading and children's phantasy play; and owing to his extensive international teaching experience, his own material was enriched by that of many supervisees. This collection of papers, read as a whole, invites new readers to follow and partake in what he called 'the most interesting conversation in the world'.

Author : Donald Meltzer
Publisher : Harris Meltzer Trust
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781912567850

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Selected Papers of Donald Meltzer - Vol. 1 by Donald Meltzer Pdf

The contents of the three volumes are grouped not chronologically but under the headings of 'Personality and Family Structure', 'Philosophy and History of Psychoanalysis', and 'The Psychoanalytic Process and the Analyst'. Together they present his interpretation of the 'Kleinian development' from Freud, through Abraham and Klein, to Bion and the post-Kleinian model; and within this evolution, his view of the natural history of the psychoanalytic process, the aesthetics of the method, and his insights into the operation of the transference and countertransference. Meltzer saw the psychoanalytic process as a new method that contributes alongside more traditional art-forms to our scientific knowledge of the mind. Working with both adults and children, he viewed psychoanalysis in developmental rather than narrowly therapeutic terms, with potential for both analyst and analysand. All his theories derived from clinical work, above all from dream-reading and children's phantasy play; and owing to his extensive international teaching experience, his own material was enriched by that of many supervisees. This collection of papers, read as a whole, invites new readers to follow and partake in what he called 'the most interesting conversation in the world'.

Author : Rosemary Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429897351

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Bridges by Rosemary Gordon Pdf

This book focuses on a number of psychodynamic concepts, processes, symptoms, and also achievements in terms of the bridge and the bridging functions. It deals with questions of psychological growth, creativity, and the arts.