1st Edition

A Curious Intimacy Art and Neuro-psychoanalysis

By Lois Oppenheim Copyright 2005
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

What can neuroscience contribute to the psychodynamic understanding of creativity and the imagination? A Curious Intimacy is an innovative study into the interrelation between art and neuro-psychoanalysis which significantly narrows the divide between the humanities and the sciences. Situating our grasp of the creative mind within the historical context of theories of sublimation,... Read more

Solms, Foreword. Introduction. Part I: Art and the Brain. Creativity and Biology. Re-dressing the Question: Neuroscience and the "Feminine" in Art. Part II: A New Direction for Interdisciplinary Psychoanalysis. Psychic Boundaries in the Work of Samuel Beckett. Paul Klee's Late Style. The Shape of Process: Martha Graham’s Journey into the Self. Epilogue.

 

Biography

Lois Oppenheim is Distinguished Scholar, Professor of French and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Montclair State University.