Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Stories We Live

Synopsis

Psychoanalysis And Literature:the Stories We Live, Marilyn Charles Pairs Case Vignettes With Examples From Literature To Highlight The Essential Human Struggles That Play Out In The Consulting Room. This Pairing Depathologizes Those Struggles And Offers A Conceptual Framework That Can Help The Clinician Facilitate These Journeys Of Discovery. Describing First How Literature Affords An Opportunity For Vicarious Engagement With Struggles Endemic To The Human Condition, She Then Focuses On Trauma, Dreams, And ‘cultural Collisions’ Turning More Explicitly To The Developmental Challenges Of Identity, Relatedness, Aging, And Generativity. -- Publisher's Description Epiphany: The Poet's Art, The Analyst's Instrument: Formal Structure As A Vehicle For The Expression Of Primary Experience -- The Waves: Tensions Between Creativity And Containment In The Life And Writings Of Virginia Woolf -- Falling Man: Encounters With Catastrophic Change -- Telling Trauma: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle -- The Book Of Intimate Grammar: Transgenerational Trauma -- Dreamscapes: Memoirs Of A Survivor -- Reparation And Redemption: Nightmare And Memory In D.m. Thomas's Pictures At An Exhibition And In Clinical Practice -- Collisions Between Conscious And Unconscious; East And West: Kafka On The Shore -- Cultural Chasms: Mulberry And Peach -- Journeys Into The Labyrinth, Part I: The Magus -- Through The Unknown, Remembered Gate: Journeys Into The Labyrinth, Part Ii: The Glass Bead Game -- Standing Outside The Gates: Pierre, Or The Ambiguities -- Identity Derailed: The Echo Maker -- Identity, Community, And Object Choice, Part I: Mrs. Dalloway And All Passion Spent -- Identity, Community, And Object Choice, Part Ii: Possession -- Aging And Death: The Map And The Territory, All Passion Spent, And The Sense Of An Ending. Marilyn Charles. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.