Psychoanalytic aesthetics : an introduction to the British school /

Psychoanalytic aesthetics : an introduction to the British school /

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Author / Creator:	Glover, Nicola.
Imprint:	London : Published for the Harris Meltzer Trust by Karnac, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xxxi, 254 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Aesthetics -- Psychological aspects. Psychoanalysis and art. Psychoanalysis. Aesthetics -- Psychological aspects. Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis and art. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11257264

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ISBN:	9781849408325 1849408327 9781855756861 1855756862
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-246) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	'This is a book to which the attention of students of art theory and criticism, and all those interested in the important application of psychoanalysis to other fields of study, should be drawn. "Psychoanalytic Aesthetics" rethinks the classical account of the relation between art and madness, creativity and psychoneurosis, and the distinction between the primary and secondary processes. It covers a great deal of ground and reviews many psychoanalytic writers (predominantly of the British tradition) on aesthetics, as well as many of the aestheticians using a psychoanalytic background. It is we.
Other form:	Print version: Glover, Nicky. Psychoanalytic aesthetics. London : Published for the Harris Meltzer Trust by Karnac, 2009 9781855756861

Table of Contents:

Freud's theory of art and creativity
Essentials of Kleinian theory
The development of Kleinian aesthetics
The legacy of Wilfred Bion
Ehrenzweig and the hidden order of art
Art, creativity, and the potential space
Painting as the body : the aesthetics of Fuller and Wollheim.