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Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World (Paperback)
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Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World (Paperback)
Series: Relational Perspectives Book Series
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What is the role of unconscious fantasies in psychological
development, in psychopathology, and in the arts? In Unconscious
Fantasies and the Relational World, Danielle Knafo and Kenneth
Feiner return to these interlinked questions with a specific goal
in mind: a contemporary appreciation of fantasy in its multiform
relational contexts. To this end, they provide detailed
examinations of primal scene, family romance, and castration
fantasies, respectively. Each category of fantasy is pushed beyond
its "classical" psychoanalytic meaning by attending to the child's
ubiquitous concerns about sexual difference and feelings of
incompleteness; her perception of the parental relationship; and
the multiple, shifting identifications that grow out of this
relationship. Evocative clinical examples illuminate the manner in
which patients and analysts play out these three core fantasies.
They are balanced by chapters that explore the generative side of
these same fantasies in the arts. David Lynch's film Blue Velvet
provides an artistic rendering of the primal scene; Jerzy Kosinki's
life and work illustrates the family romance; and French multimedia
artist Orlan's "carnal art" recreates the trauma of castration.
Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World is a tightly woven
study of broad and basic questions. It is in equal measure a
contemporary re-visioning of the grounds of fantasy formation, a
relationally informed guide to clinical techniques for dealing with
unconscious fantasy, and an examination of the generative potential
of unconscious fantasy in the arts. Out of the authors' broadening
and broad-minded sensibility emerges an illuminating study of the
manifold ways in which unconscious fantasies shape lives and enrich
clinical work.
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