Dancing With The Unconscious: The Art Of Psychoanalysis And The Psychoanalysis Of Art (psychoanalysis In A New Key Book Series)
by Danielle Knafo /
2012 / English / EPUB
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In writing and lecturing over the past two decades on the
relationship between psychoanalysis and art, Danielle Knafo has
demonstrated the many ways in which these two disciplines inform
and illuminate each other. This book continues that discussion,
emphasizing how the creative process in psychoanalysis and art
utilizes the unconscious in a quest for transformation and
healing. Part one of the book presents case studies to show how
free association, transference, dream work, regression, altered
states of consciousness, trauma, and solitude function as
creative tools for analyst, patient, and artist. Knafo uses the
metaphor of dance to describe therapeutic action, the
back-and-forth movement between therapist and patient, past and
present, containment and release, and conscious and unconscious
thought. The analytic couple is both artist and medium, and the
dance they do together is a dynamic representation of the
boundless creativity of the unconscious mind. Part two of the
book offers in-depth studies of several artists to illustrate how
they employ various media for self-expression and
self-creation. Knafo shows how artists, though mostly creating in
solitude, are frequently engaged in significant relational
proceses that attempt rapprochement with internalized
objects and repair of psychic injury.
In writing and lecturing over the past two decades on the
relationship between psychoanalysis and art, Danielle Knafo has
demonstrated the many ways in which these two disciplines inform
and illuminate each other. This book continues that discussion,
emphasizing how the creative process in psychoanalysis and art
utilizes the unconscious in a quest for transformation and
healing. Part one of the book presents case studies to show how
free association, transference, dream work, regression, altered
states of consciousness, trauma, and solitude function as
creative tools for analyst, patient, and artist. Knafo uses the
metaphor of dance to describe therapeutic action, the
back-and-forth movement between therapist and patient, past and
present, containment and release, and conscious and unconscious
thought. The analytic couple is both artist and medium, and the
dance they do together is a dynamic representation of the
boundless creativity of the unconscious mind. Part two of the
book offers in-depth studies of several artists to illustrate how
they employ various media for self-expression and
self-creation. Knafo shows how artists, though mostly creating in
solitude, are frequently engaged in significant relational
proceses that attempt rapprochement with internalized
objects and repair of psychic injury.Dancing with
the Unconscious
Dancing with
the Unconscious expands the theoretical dimension of
psychoanalysis while offering the clinician ways to realize
greater creativity in work with patients.
expands the theoretical dimension of
psychoanalysis while offering the clinician ways to realize
greater creativity in work with patients.