Patterns: Building Blocks of Experience

ISBN-13: 9780881633726 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 204 str.

Marilyn Charles; James S. Grotstein

Opis

Various tributaries of psychoanalytic and developmental theory have flowed into our understanding of the role of early sensory and affective experiences in the construction of our personal worlds. This work traces how such primary experiences coalesce into patterns. Through pattern, Marilyn Charles holds, we approach elusive meanings through dimensions of shape, contour, and affective resonance. Such patterned understandings, in turn, become a mode of interchange through which we touch one another in ways that go beyond the overtly physical. Analytic patients, Charles finds, have often led early lives too full of noise to use their early sensory and affective experiences constructively. Charles illustrates the tight interweaving of patterned experience and creativity by examining the poetry of Sylvia Plath and Adrienne Rich, each of whom, used the medium of poetry to give verbal form to primary sensory and affective experiences.

Spis treści

Meaning and Primary Experience. Patterns: Unconscious Shapings of Self and Experience. Autosensuous Shapes: Prototypes for Creative Forms. Nonphysical Touch: Modes of Containment and Communication Within the Analytic Process. Foundations of Creative Expression: Primary Experience as Creative Potential. The Language of the Body: Allusions to Self-Experience in Women's Poetry.

O autorze

Marilyn Charles, Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst with the Michigan Psychoanalytic Council and Adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology at Michigan State University. A poet and artist herself, Dr. Charles has a special interest in the creative process and, in her clinical practice, works extensively with artists, writers, and musicians.