Transferences - The Aesthetics and Poetics of the Therapeutic Relationship (Paperback)

Why are psychoanalysts fascinated with literature and other arts? And why do so many novels, plays, films, and television series feature therapy sessions? Transferences investigates the interdisciplinary attraction between psychoanalysis and the arts by exploring the therapeutic relationship as a recurring figure in psychoanalytic discourse, literature, theater, and television. In addition to close readings of psychoanalytic and critical texts, the book presents a new approach to examining psychoanalytic themes and formal devices in texts like Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, J. M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K, Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, Peter Shaffer's Equus, and the HBO series In Treatment. Transferences argues that psychoanalysts as well as writers and other artists are fascinated by the therapeutic relationship because it provides a unique site to negotiate the narrative and artistic underpinnings of psychoanalysis and reflect and reinvent the aesthetic and poetic potentiality of art.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Psychoanalytic Horizons
Release date:	April 2021
Authors:	Maren Scheurer
Dimensions:	216 x 140mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-1-5013-8144-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Television Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory
LSN:	1-5013-8144-X
Barcode:	9781501381447

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