Psychoanalytic Aesthetics

An Introduction to the British School

By (author) Nicky Glover

Book cover: Psychoanalytic Aesthetics

Extent: 288 pages

Publisher: The Harris Meltzer Trust

Subjects: Philosophy, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, & Psychotherapy

Language: English

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ISBN: 9781912567188

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Psychoanalytic Aesthetics is an in-depth study of the Kleinian school’s longstanding concern with aesthetics, which resulted in rethinking the classical account of the relation between art and madness, creativity and psychoneurosis, primary and secondary processes.

This is a book to which the attention of students of art theory and criticism, and all those interested in the important application of psychoanalysis to other fields of study, should be drawn. Psychoanalytic Aesthetics rethinks the classical account of the relation between art and madness, creativity and psychoneurosis, and the distinction between the primary and secondary processes. It covers a great deal of ground and reviews many psychoanalytic writers (predominantly of the British tradition) on aesthetics, as well as many of the aestheticians using a psychoanalytic background. It is well written and there is an impressive grasp of the many writers covered. More than this, the book is also a work of psychoanalytic scholarship, being a masterly overview of psychoanalytic schools of thought, and an in-depth study of the British object-relations schools. It amply achieves its overriding goal to demonstrate that the work of the British School presents a significant contribution to psychoanalytic aesthetics and criticism, updating Freud, Kris and the classical contributions to the field. It is therefore potentially a very useful source book for future scholars of both psychoanalysis and of aesthetics.

Foreword Neil Maizels Introduction PART I - THE LEGACY OF FREUD 1. Freud's theory of art and creativity PART II - KLEIN'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE AESTHETICS OF THE BRITISH SCHOOL 2. Essentials of Kleinian theory 3. The development of Kleinian aesthetics PART III - DEVELOPMENTS IN THE BRITISH SCHOOL 4. The legacy of Wilfred Bion 5. Ehrenzweig and the hidden order of art 6. Art, creativity, and the potential space 7. Painting as the body: the aesthetics of Fuller and Wollheim Conclusion References Index,

Foreword
Neil Maizels

Introduction

PART I – THE LEGACY OF FREUD
1. Freud’s theory of art and creativity

PART II – KLEIN’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE AESTHETICS OF THE BRITISH SCHOOL
2. Essentials of Kleinian theory
3. The development of Kleinian aesthetics

PART III – DEVELOPMENTS IN THE BRITISH SCHOOL
4. The legacy of Wilfred Bion
5. Ehrenzweig and the hidden order of art
6. Art, creativity, and the potential space
7. Painting as the body: the aesthetics of Fuller and Wollheim

Conclusion

References
Index

  • By (author) Nicky Glover

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