1st Edition
The Art of Personality in Literature and Psychoanalysis
By Meg Harris Williams
Copyright 2017
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Art of Personality is a diverse selection of talks and papers on psychoanalysis and literature given by the author over the past ten years. They elaborate on the goal expressed by Milton as 'becoming a true poem': that is, seeing parallels between the gradual construction of the personality and the construction of a work of art, following an internal evolution on the lines of Bion's... Read more
Acknowledgements About the author Preface -- Prometheus and the mythological consciousness -- Electra complexities across three dramatists -- Women, gods and witches: Euripides and the roots of perversity -- Reversing perversion: a musical resolution to Wuthering Heights -- The wound and its transformations: some stories by Kafka -- The valley and the mountain: Ibsen's inner landscapes -- Dostoevsky and the education of -- The evolution of artistic faith in White's Riders in the Chariot -- On psychoanalytic autobiography -- The infant and the infinite: on psychoanalytic faith -- References -- Index
Biography
Meg Harris Williams
