Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World

ISBN-13: 9780881634204 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 232 str.

Danielle Knafo; Kenneth Feiner

Opis

What is the role of unconscious fantasies in psychological development, in psychopathology, and in the arts? In Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World, Danielle Knafo and Kenneth Feiner return to these interlinked questions with a specific goal in mind: a contemporary appreciation of fantasy in its multiform relational contexts. To this end, they provide detailed examinations of primal scene, family romance, and castration fantasies, respectively. Each category of fantasy is pushed beyond its classical psychoanalytic meaning by attending to the child's ubiquitous concerns about sexual difference and feelings of incompleteness; her perception of the parental relationship; and the multiple, shifting identifications that grow out of this relationship.

Spis treści

Introduction. Unconscious Fantasies and Psychic Structure. Part I: Primal Scene Fantasies. The Primal Scene: Variations on a Theme. Blue Velvet: David Lynch's Primal Scene [cinema]. Part II: Family Romance Fantasies. Not in the Family: Family Romance Fantasies and Enactments in Psychoanalysis. Fact, Fantasy, and Fiction: Jerzy Kosinski's Family Romance and Imposture [literature]. Part III: Castration Fantasies. Castration Fantasies, Sexual Difference, and Mind-Body Matters. Now You See It, Now You Don't: A Case Study of Castration and "Omnisexuality." Art on the Cutting Edge: Orlan's Medusan Female [visual/performance art].

O autorze

Knafo, Danielle; Feiner, Kenneth