1st Edition

The Aesthetic Development The Poetic Spirit of Psychoanalysis: Essays on Bion, Meltzer, Keats

By Meg Harris Williams Copyright 2010
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

'Few people would be better qualified than the author to write this innovative and eagerly anticipated post-Kleinian book. Deeply versed in the opus of Bion and Meltzer, the author enhances the concept of "catastrophic change". The analyst who "eschews memory and desire" observes the subtle interplay of transference and countertransference (Meltzer's "counter dreaming") as it works through... Read more
Introduction , Psychoanalysis: an art or a science? , Aesthetic concepts of Bion and Meltzer , The domain of the aesthetic object , Sleeping beauty , Moving beauty , Psychoanalysis as an art form , Afterword

Biography

Meg Harris Williams