Writing on the Moon: Stories and Poetry from the Creative Unconscious by Psychoanalysts and Others

ISBN-13: 9781782204602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 236 str.

Bonnie Zindel

Opis

Writing on the Moon: Stories and Poetry from the Creative Unconscious by Psychoanalysts and Others is the first collection of the best creative writing by psychoanalysts published over the past 15 years in the Creative Literary Section of Psychoanalytic Perspectives along with imaginative introductions by literary editor Bonnie Zindel.

Some writings are raw and honest. Some are dark and access our primal being. Others, filled with beauty, illuminate the internal life, the playful mind, and unconscious doodlings that might otherwise remain unformulated. The work is not scholarly or polite.

Creativity has long fascinated psychoanalysis, from Freud's studies of Michelangelo and Leonardo to Marion Milner's interest in artists and analysts. Plato called creativity "divine madness."

The book's contributors include Robert Stolorow, Thomas Ogden, and D.W. Winnicott, and submissions came from as far as South Africa, Australia, England, France, Israel, and the United States-- offering a glimpse into the private world of psychotherapists who hold so much in their work with patients.

In the romance between poetry, stories, and psychoanalysis, the book exalts the rich soil of our originality and imagination and raises the question: Why is creativity important in psychoanalysis?

Spis treści

Introduction -- Dreams as poetry -- From image to words: one unconscious speaks to another -- Love calls: a call for love -- Creativity and madness -- The art of Thomas Ogden -- Letters to Dearest Mother from famous writers -- Poetry by people in analysis -- Voices out of New Orleans: Hurricane Katrina -- Presence and absence -- Emotional travel writing -- The unexpected poet: D. W. Winnicott -- Mothers of the Milky Way Part One: poetry -- Mothers of the Milky Way Part Two: creative nonfiction -- Art brut—outsider art -- Strong women's voices -- Capturing moments: four very, very short narratives, three poems, and a photograph -- Ferenczi and relationality: on losing one's analyst

O autorze

Bonnie Zindel