The Sound of the Unconscious: Psychoanalysis as Music

ISBN-13: 9780367645526 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 142 str.

Ludovica Grassi

Opis

In this book, Grassi explores the importance of music in psychoanalysis and the place of listening for rhythm within it, arguing that music is a basic working tool for psyche, as words are composed of sound, rhythm and intonation more than lexical meaning.

Spis treści

Foreword – by Harriet L. Wolfe  Introduction 1. Sound and Rhythm in Psychic Life and Psychoanalytic Work  2. Listening to the Link: Music and Primal Relationships  3. On Imitation  4. The Music Is Not in the Notes... Intimacy and the Negative in Music  5. Beyond Space, Time 6. Musical Dialogues: The Baby in a World of Sound and Rhythm  7. The Musical Unconscious in the Family  8. Silence and Absence: Sound and Music During the Coronavirus Pandemic.  Afterword – by Anna Maria Nicolò

O autorze

Ludovica Grassi, MD, is a Child Neuropsychiatrist, Full Member of the Italian Society of Psychoanalysis and IPA, Expert in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, and Couple and Family Psychoanalyst. Her research and publication main topics are: ethnopsychoanalysis; music and psychoanalysis; the origins of psychic life; psychoanalytic work with infants, children, adults, couples and families.