Portraits of the Artist: Psychoanalysis of Creativity and Its Vicissitudes

ISBN-13: 9781138154018 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 330 str.

John E. Gedo

Opis

Gedo's pathbreaking exploration of the psychology of creativity incorporates first-hand material drawn from his extensive clinical work with artists, musicians, and other exceptionally creative individuals. Using this body of clinical knowledge as conceptual anchorage, he then offers illuminating reassessments of the artistic productivity of van Gogh, Picasso, Gauguin, and Caravaggio, and the literary productivity of Nietzsche, Jung, and Freud.

Spis treści

Introduction, Gay  I. Psychoanalytic Studies of Creativity: A Retrospect  1. Biographical Studies  2. Studies of Aesthetics and Creativity  II. Clinical Studies  3. Creative Paralysis: The Captivity of Idleness  4. Barefoot and Pregnant: The Dilemma of the Woman Artist  5. Spared by the Fire from Heaven  6. The Psychology of Genius Revisited  III. Historical Studies  7. On van Gogh, Picasso, and the Dynamics of Creativity  8. Creativity and Psychopathology: van Gogh and Gauguin as Prototypes  9. Terribilita: The Paranoid Monster as Creative Genius  10. On the Lamentations of Doctor Faustus  IV. Creativity as Prophecy  11. Sigmund Freud and the Socratic Tradition  12. A Promise of Magic  13. Magna Est Vis Veritatis Tuae Et Praevalebit  14. The Air Trembles, for Demi-Gods Draw Near  Epilogue: The Artist in the Age of Mass Culture: Prophet in the Wilderness 

O autorze

John E. Gedo, M.D., retired in 1990 as Training and Supervising Analyst, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of numerous books for Analytic Press, including The Biology of Clinical Encounters (1991) and The Mind in Disorder (1998).