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On the Way to Myself - Communications to a Friend (Hardcover)
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On the Way to Myself - Communications to a Friend (Hardcover)
Series: Collected Works of Charlotte Wolff
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Originally published in 1969, Dr Charlotte Wolff was the author of
three books of psychology: The Human Hand, A Psychology of Gesture
and The Hand in Psychological Diagnosis. This book, though it
contains much psychology, is not of the same scientific kind as
these. It is an autobiography, but not one of the normal kind. It
is the history of a mind, not the chronicle of a life. For this
reason it is not arranged chronologically but it is constructed
round what the author called the creative shock experiences of her
life, some of which belong with their consequences rather than with
events adjacent in time. The resulting book is one of imaginative
psychology. In the course of a life which began on the borders of
Poland and carried her to Germany, France, Russia and England, Dr
Wolff had met and known many of the most famous writers, artists
and thinkers of the time. In Germany she studied under the founding
Existentialists, Husserl and Heidegger; in France she carried out
psychological research under Professor Henri Wallon and was also
assisted by the Surrealists, Andre Breton, St. Exupery, Paul
Eluard; in England she was aided in her work by Sir Julian Huxley,
Aldous Huxley and his wife, Dr William Stephenson, Dr Earle and
others. But Dr Wolff's earliest creative work was as a poet, and
though she turned to psychology, her interest in art brought her
into touch at different times with Ravel, Virginia Woolf, Bernard
Shaw, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Baladine
Klossowska and many more. Dr Earle wrote of her that she is 'an
artist of psychology', and it is thus that she appears in this odd
and fascinating book. Today it is an interesting glimpse in to the
life of an early feminist psychologist. Her later research focused
on sexology, her writing on lesbianism and bisexuality were
influential early works in the field.
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