1st Edition
Exploring the Work of Donald Meltzer A Festschrift
254 Pages
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Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is a tribute to Donald Melzer's extraordinary contribution to psychoanalysis. It includes many of the papers given at the Tavistock Centre in London to celebrate Meltzer's 75th Birthday. Among the contributions, Margaret Rustin and Michael Rustin write on the work of Samuel Beckett; Gianna Williams elaborates upon Meltzer's thinking about the meeting of mother and baby; Didier Houzel... Read more
Introduction , A review of my writings , Experiences of learning with Donald Meltzer , Development is beauty, growth is ethics , The beauty and the violence of love , Keats’s “Ode to Psyche” , “Song-and-dance” and its developments: the function of rhythm in the learning process of oral and written language , Clinical notes on the organizing function of time during puberty , The light meter, the thermostat, the tuner: the compositional aspects of communication with very disturbed adolescents , Love and destructivity: from the aesthetic conflict to a revision of the concept of destructivity in the psyche , Reflections on “aesthetic reciprocity” , Beckett: dramas of psychic catastrophe , Living in intrusive identification , Reading Donald Meltzer: identification and intercourse as modes of reading and relating , A learning experience in psychoanalysis
Biography
Donald Meltzer
