Aesthetic Conflict and its Clinical Relevance

Edited by Meg Harris Williams

Extent: 288 pages

Publisher: The Harris Meltzer Trust

Subjects: Philosophy, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, & Psychotherapy

Language: English

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(June 2018)

ISBN: 9781912567034

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The contributions in this book are by worlwide analysts and therapists working with both children and adults. They have all 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 itse

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.

Introduction Meg Harris Williams 1. Seduction and aesthetic conflict Didier Houzel 2. Love in the countertransference Mariza Leite da Costa 3. On aesthetic transference Izelinda Garcia de Barros 4. A fox in a castle of words Marina Vanali 5. Rekindling the spirit of growth: an aesthetic encounter Ellie Roberts 6. Aesthetic conflict and infant observation Deborah Morley 7. The aesthetic conflict in everyday life Jennifer Kunst 8. A child's vicissitudes over the aesthetic conflict Marisa Pelella Melega 9. The role of the paternal function in the aesthetic experience Gianna Polacco Williams 10. The beauty of development and the ugliness of stagnation Irene Freeden 11. 'I see not feel, how beautiful they are' Dorothy Hamilton 12. Narcissus rejects: the surrender to beauty Neil Maizels 13. How the aesthetic conflict comes to life Lennart Ramberg 14. Nobody's boy: beauty as an element in psychic recovery Dawn Farber 15. Transference-love and its vicissitudes Avner Bergstein 16. The barbed-wire hole of despair: retreat from aesthetic conflict David Brooks 17. Passion and anti-passion in the Bion-Meltzer ethical-aesthetic model Renato Trachtenberg 18. Concerning aesthetic reciprocity Maria Haydee Castellaro de Pozzi 19. Aesthetic conflict in couple therapy Barbara Bianchini 20. The aesthetic impact of transference spaces Lucia Rey de Castro 21. The Lamb and the Tyger: aesthetic experience and the K-link David Mayers References Name index Subject index,

Introduction

Meg Harris Williams

1. Seduction and aesthetic conflict
Didier Houzel

2. Love in the countertransference
Mariza Leite da Costa

3. On aesthetic transference
Izelinda Garcia de Barros

4. A fox in a castle of words
Marina Vanali

5. Rekindling the spirit of growth: an aesthetic encounter
Ellie Roberts

6. Aesthetic conflict and infant observation
Deborah Morley

7. The aesthetic conflict in everyday life
Jennifer Kunst

8. A child’s vicissitudes over the aesthetic conflict
Marisa Pelella Mélega

9. The role of the paternal function in the aesthetic experience
Gianna Polacco Williams

10. The beauty of development and the ugliness of stagnation
Irene Freeden

11. ‘I see not feel, how beautiful they are’
Dorothy Hamilton

12. Narcissus rejects: the surrender to beauty
Neil Maizels

13. How the aesthetic conflict comes to life
Lennart Ramberg

14. Nobody’s boy: beauty as an element in psychic recovery
Dawn Farber

15. Transference-love and its vicissitudes
Avner Bergstein

16. The barbed-wire hole of despair: retreat from aesthetic conflict
David Brooks

17. Passion and anti-passion in the Bion-Meltzer ethical-aesthetic model
Renato Trachtenberg

18. Concerning aesthetic reciprocity
Maria Haydée Castellaro de Pozzi

19. Aesthetic conflict in couple therapy
Barbara Bianchini

20. The aesthetic impact of transference spaces
Lucía Rey de Castro

21. The Lamb and the Tyger: aesthetic experience and the K-link
David Mayers

References
Name index
Subject index

Edited by Meg Harris Williams

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