Art and Psychoanalysis

Between the Dialectics of the Other and Poetic Estrangement
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-96978-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 138 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: The International Psychoanalytical Association Current Challenges in Psychoanalysis

This book explores the concept of estrangement from a psychoanalytic perspective, intertwining art and aesthetics to offer a paradigm of the aesthetic experience.

Gabriela Goldstein suggests that an unexpected encounter with a work of art may lead to a state of poetic estrangement, promoting a possible reorganization of its subject’s psychic economy. The conceptual work is illuminated with vignettes exploring the experience of this state of estrangement, reflecting on the encounter between the subject and the other/Other, between analyst and patient and in the framework provided by the analytical situation. Finally, Goldstein considers how the metapsychology of aesthetic experience and its research contribute to clinical understanding of processes of deficient symbolization.

Estrangement in Psychoanalysis will be key reading for psychoanalysts, artists, researchers, and teachers of art and psychoanalysis. It will also be of great interest to art therapists, students of art and the humanities, as well as other readers interested in an in-depth understanding of the aesthetic experience and creative processes.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldstein, Gabriela

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Concept of Estrangement, Art and Aesthetics 2. The Aesthetic Experience at the Beginning of the Psyche 3. The Other in Art and the Dynamics of Estrangement 4. Destinies and Estrangements: Hysteria, Narcissism, and Melancholia 5. Estrangement and Creativity, the Cure at Stake

Über Autor(innen)

Gabriela Goldstein, PhD, is a training analyst of International Psychoanalytical Association and FEPAL, and the former president of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. She is the author of several books including Art in Psychoanalysis and an architect and painter.