A Psychoanalytic Engagement with the Arts

Culture and Kulturarbeit
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-68554-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

A Psychoanalytic Engagement with the Arts applies Freud’s anthropological writing and theories to contemporary works of fiction and poetry.

Giuseppina Antinucci offers close readings of the works of contemporary literary figures Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Amelia Rosselli and Jhuma Lahiri, from a psychoanalytic standpoint. Through these close readings, Antinucci uses the interweaving of the characters’ psychology with the demand of their social context to interrogate the factors that impact on their capacity and condition for survival. Throughout, she applies the Freudian concept of Kulturarbeit - the quota of psychic work pertaining to the symbolic order - and considers contemporary human experiences of migration and border-crossing, reparation, trauma and critical race theory from a psychoanalytic perspective. Adopting Winnicottian, Lacanian and Freudian methodologies, Antinucci adeptly illustrates the impact of psychoanalysis on art and vice versa, offering a novel way to approach contemporary issues of the psyche and human experience. 

Using a psychoanalytic engagement of contemporary fiction to address the complexity of human existence, this volume will be of interest to psychoanalysts, as well as researchers and students interested in the intersection between psychoanalysis and the creative arts.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Antinucci, Giuseppina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements  General Introduction  1. The work of culture, the being of nature  2. For a psychoanalytic perspective on the malaise of the culture  3. The universally human  4. Believe, do not believe me  5. Characters: fictional, realistic, verisimilar, plausible  6. Ideals in a world without fathers  7. Americanah: the blogger, the humorist  8. The intermittent epiphanies of trauma: The melancholic discourse of the trilingual poet Amelia Rosselli

Über Autor(innen)

Giuseppina Antinucci is a Fellow of the BPAS and a Full Member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. She divides her time between Milan and London, while also teaching widely in the U.K and abroad. She is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and Routledge’s New Library of Psychoanalysis series, and is a member of the organizing committee of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival, and has authored several articles and book chapters on the intersection of psychoanalysis and the arts.