Art in Psychoanalysis
Subtitle: A Contemporary Approach to Creativity and Analytic Practice
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group; Karnac Books; Routledge
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781782200031
Subjects: Psychoanalysis and art
Description: A revolution is brewing in psychoanalysis: after a century of struggle to define psychoanalysis as a science, the concept of psychoanalysis as an art is finding expression in an unconventional 'return to Freud' that reformulates the relationship between art and psychoanalysis and in this process, discovers and explores uncharted routes through art to re-think problems in contemporary clinical work. This book explores recent contributions to the status of psychoanalytic thought in relation to art and creativity and the implications of these investigations for today's analytic practice. The title, 'Art in Psychoanalysis', reflects its double perspective: art and its contributions to theory and clinical practice on the one hand, and the response from psychoanalysis and its "interpretation" of art. These essays expose the "aesthetic value of analytic work when it is able to 'create' something new in the relation with the patient".