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Author Glover, Nicola.

Title Psychoanalytic aesthetics : an introduction to the British school / Nicky Glover.

Publication Info. London : Published for the Harris Meltzer Trust by Karnac, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 254 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-246) and index.
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.
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.
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Subject Aesthetics -- Psychological aspects.
Aesthetics -- Psychological aspects.
Psychoanalysis and art.
Psychoanalysis and art.
Psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Glover, Nicky. Psychoanalytic aesthetics. London : Published for the Harris Meltzer Trust by Karnac, 2009 9781855756861 (DLC) 2009293903 (OCoLC)277203859
ISBN 9781849408325 (electronic book)
1849408327 (electronic book)
9781855756861
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