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Before Words (Paperback)
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Before Words (Paperback)
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Psychoanalysis has continuously been applied to the exploration of
creativity and artistic genius, but up to now, this has not
produced its own systematic body of knowledge. The traditional
psychoanalytic approach to art is to attempt to decode it, in order
to capture its hidden meaning. But in this book, the author
explains that it is through the arts, we discover important aspects
of ourselves. Antonio Di Benedetto argues for a completely new
approach.. By employing analytic receptivity to listen to the
aesthetic object and what it has to say, art becomes the
interpretative key instead. Furthermore, the author shows how the
arts can inspire psychoanalysis, helping it to recover its
intuitive and poetic roots and providing forms, images and sounds
to best represent fleeting introspective moments and pre-verbal
insight. To illustrate these pre-symbolic aspects of introspection,
the author examines well-known aesthetic masterpieces; the frescoes
of the Loggia of Psyche in Rome, Mozart's The Magic Flute, and Six
Characters in Search of an Author, by L. Pirandello. Of these, Di
Benedetto considers music to be the artistic form best suited to
refine the analyst's capacity to listen to the affective component
of unconscious communication.
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