1st Edition
The Vale of Soulmaking The Post-Kleinian Model of the Mind
By Meg Harris Williams
Copyright 2005
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
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The post-Kleinian model of the mind, as developed by W. R. Bion and Donald Meltzer, is essentially an aesthetic one. It is founded on Melanie Klein's discovery of the "internal object" with its combined masculine and feminine qualities and ambiguous, awe-inspiring nature. Turbulent emotional experiences are repeatedly transformed through symbol-formation, on the basis of the internal relationship... Read more
Foreword , Introduction , The stroke of the axe , The evolution of Psyche , Milton as Muse , The fall and rise of Eve , Oedipus at the crossroads , The weavings of Athene , Cleopatra’s monument , Creativity and the countertransference , Post-Kleinian poetics , Rosemary’s roots , Confessions of an emmature superego or, the Ayah’s lament
Biography
Meg Harris Williams
