ABSTRACT
This essential edition brings together a collection of classic papers from key figures in Kleinian and post-Kleinian thought that explore the relationship between psychoanalysis and art.Sandra Gosso begins with a comprehensive and fascinating guide to the history of this relationship which began with Freud and was developed further by Melanie Klein at a time when most analysts were moving away from links with art. Melanie Klein's pivotal paper, "Infantile Anxiety Situations Reflected in a Work of Art and in the Creative Impulse", follows the Introduction. The other papers featured are mainly from British analysts who expanded on Melanie Klein's ideas, inspired by the influence of the creative Bloomsbury and Imago Groups.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|92 pages
Art as Reparation
chapter One|9 pages
Infantile anxiety-situations reflected in a work of art and in the creative impulse
chapter Three|23 pages
Three unconscious phantasy of an inner world reflected in examples from literature
section II|165 pages
Post-Kleinian Thought
