Art and Psyche

Art and Psyche PDF Author: Ellen Handler Spitz
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300046205
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
In this provocative, closely argued book, Ellen Handler Spitz explores three principal psychoanalytic approaches to art. The first considers the relations between an artist's life and work; the second focuses on the work of art itself; and the third encompasses the intricate relations between a work of art and its audience or beholders. To illustrate her theoretical discussion, Spitz draws on a variety of art forms, including painting, sculpture, literature, music, and dance. "No one who is concerned with the psychoanalytic study of art can afford to neglect [this book]; no one who cares about the art of psychoanalysis should ignore it."--Aaron H. Esman, M.D., Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association "This book ... should prove fascinating to all who are concerned with works of art as expressions of the human mind and heart."--Shehira Davezac, Hospital and Community Psychiatry "This book is highly recommended to all who enjoy the multiple applications of analytic thought to extend our senses."--Jay Lefer, Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis Ellen Handler Spitz holds degrees in art history, aesthetics, and education from Barnard College, Harvard University, and Columbia University. She was trained as a special candidate at the Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Columbia University.

Psyche and the Arts

Psyche and the Arts PDF Author: Susan Rowland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134071515
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
Psyche and the Arts challenges existing ideas about the relationship between Jung and art, and offers exciting new dimensions to key issues such as the role of image in popular culture, and the division of psyche and matter in art form.

Signs of Psyche in Modern and Postmodern Art

Signs of Psyche in Modern and Postmodern Art PDF Author: Donald B. Kuspit
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 387

Book Description


Unfolding the Unconscious Psyche

Unfolding the Unconscious Psyche PDF Author: Edward Applebaum
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317578171
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
Unfolding the Unconscious Psyche is a study of the creative arts and depth psychology, and the threads that run between the two. Edward Applebaum begins with works of art, in media including painting, music, literature and film, and pursues aspects of each towards an understanding of the unconscious psyche of the creator. By combining a study of the artistic work with the insight of depth psychology, Applebaum opens a dialogue between studies of works of art and their creators and the individuals who form the work’s audience. Each discussion is dictated by the artwork itself and is viewed from a variety of perspectives. Throughout the book the reader is encouraged to develop their own analytical technique: to follow the clues available, link threads together and analyse what they can see. The result demonstrates the value of dialogue in blending depth psychology with the arts, through examination of work by artists including Georgia O’Keefe, Ingmar Bergman, Frida Kahlo, Gustav Mahler and Virginia Woolf. Applebaum also seeks to correct misconceptions about the arts that have filtered into the study and practice of depth psychology since the earliest writings of Freud and Jung. This uniquely creative and insightful work will be absorbing reading for analytical and depth psychologists, students of analytical psychology, academics and scholars of the arts and anyone with an interest in the application of Jungian ideas.

The Tale of Cupid and Psyche

The Tale of Cupid and Psyche PDF Author: Maria Grazia Bernardini
Publisher: L'Erma Di Bretschneider
ISBN: 9788882657222
Category : Art
Languages : it
Pages : 325

Book Description
Il catalogo della mostra - pubblicato dalla nostra Casa Editrice - descrive attraverso affreschi, dipinti e suppellettili provenienti dai più importanti musei nazionali ed internazionali, insieme al grande affresco di Castel Sant'Angelo di Perin Del Vaga (metà XVI secolo) uno dei miti più affascinanti dell'antichità: la favola di Amore e Psiche narrata da Apuleio nell'Asino D'Oro (II sec. D.C). Il volume si compone di 11 saggi e 76 schede divise in quattro sezioni: le radici del mito, le personificazioni di Eros e Psiche, i patimenti dell'anima, la coppia divina e la Fabula di Apuleio; la favola di Amore e Psiche nel Rinascimento; la scena della lampada: il fascino irresistibile dell'amore misterioso ed in fine il revival romantico della favola in epoca neoclassica. Un percorso di grande valore artistico, ricco di significati simbolici che si sviluppano dall'antichità a Canova documentando questo straordinario mito.

Jungian Art Therapy

Jungian Art Therapy PDF Author: Nora Swan-Foster
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315456990
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 405

Book Description
Jungian Art Therapy aims to provide a clear, introductory manual for art therapists on how to navigate Jung’s model of working with the psyche. This exciting new text circumambulates Jung’s map of the mind so as to reinforce the theoretical foundations of analytical psychology while simultaneously defining key concepts to help orient practitioners, students, and teachers alike. The book provides several methods, which illustrate how to work with the numerous images originating from the unconscious and glean understanding from them. Throughout the text readers will enjoy clinical vignettes to support each chapter and illuminate important lessons.

Interpretation in Jungian Analysis

Interpretation in Jungian Analysis PDF Author: Mark Winborn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351674285
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
An American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize Finalist 2019! Analytic interpretation is fundamental to the process of psychoanalysis, Jungian analysis, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Interpretation is the medium by which the psychoanalytic art form is transmitted. What one chooses to say in analysis, why one chooses it, how one says it, when one says it; these are the building blocks of the interpretive process and the focus of Interpretation in Jungian Analysis: Art and Technique. This volume is the first of its kind in the literature of analytical psychology. Until now, the process of interpretation has been addressed only briefly in general Jungian texts. Interpretation in Jungian Analysis provides an in-depth exploration of the process, including the history of analytic technique, the role of language in analytic therapy, the poetics and metaphor of interpretation, and the relationship between interpretation and the analytic attitude. In addition, the steps involved with the creation of clear, meaningful, and transformative interpretations are plainly outlined. Throughout the book, clinical examples and reader exercises are provided to deepen the learning experience. The influence of the Jungian perspective on the interpretative process is outlined, as are the use of analytic reverie and confrontation during the analytic process. In addition to the historical, technical, and theoretic aspects of interpretation, this book also focuses on the artistic and creative elements that are often overlooked in the interpretive process. Ultimately, cultivating fluidity within the interpretive process is essential to engaging the depth and complexity of the psyche. Interpretation in Jungian Analysis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists of all theoretical orientations and will be essential reading for students of analytical psychology.

Cupid and Psyche

Cupid and Psyche PDF Author: M. Charlotte Craft
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688131638
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Psyche is the most beautiful woman in the world, yet the oracle at Delphi foresees she will fall in love with a creature feared even by the gods themselves. Magically, Psyche finds herself in a magnificent castle fitted with sweet music, attentive servants, and a charming but invisible host. Soon she falls in love with this man she has never seen, but in a moment of doubt she betrays his trust. To win back his love, Psyche must show that she is as brave as she is beautiful by performing three impossible tasks. Perhaps the greatest love story of all, Cupid and Psyche is unsurpassed in its richness and drama. Marie Craft's lively, suspenseful retelling of this classic Greek myth will appeal to young and old alike. And these legendary lovers have inspired forty lush luminous paintings by award-winning artist Kinuko Craft. Lavishly illustrated and thrillingly told, here is a book to be treasured forever.

The Psyche's Gifts

The Psyche's Gifts PDF Author: Corinne Lightweaver
Publisher: Bookbaby
ISBN: 9781098351595
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58

Book Description
Artist Corinne Lightweaver features a series of artworks that reflect her personal experience while living with mental illness. Working from her unconscious, she uses techniques of paper collage to access, reveal, and artistically document her journey. Through her work, she hopes to spark personal and public conversations about mental illness, reduce stigma, and encourage those who suffer from it to find treatment.

The Black Sun

The Black Sun PDF Author: Stanton Marlan
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 160344078X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
Also available in an open-access, full-text edition at http://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/86080 The black sun, an ages-old image of the darkness in individual lives and in life itself, has not been treated hospitably in the modern world. Modern psychology has seen darkness primarily as a negative force, something to move through and beyond, but it actually has an intrinsic importance to the human psyche. In this book, Jungian analyst Stanton Marlan reexamines the paradoxical image of the black sun and the meaning of darkness in Western culture. In the image of the black sun, Marlan finds the hint of a darkness that shines. He draws upon his clinical experiences—and on a wide range of literature and art, including Goethe’s Faust, Dante’s Inferno, the black art of Rothko and Reinhardt—to explore the influence of light and shadow on the fundamental structures of modern thought as well as the contemporary practice of analysis. He shows that the black sun accompanies not only the most negative of psychic experiences but also the most sublime, resonating with the mystical experience of negative theology, the Kabbalah, the Buddhist notions of the void, and the black light of the Sufi Mystics. An important contribution to the understanding of alchemical psychology, this book draws on a postmodern sensibility to develop an original understanding of the black sun. It offers insight into modernity, the act of imagination, and the work of analysis in understanding depression, trauma, and transformation of the soul. Marlan’s original reflections help us to explore the unknown darkness conventionally called the Self. The image of Kali appearing in the color insert following page 44 is © Maitreya Bowen, reproduced with her permission,[email protected].