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The Chamber of Maiden Thought (Psychology Revivals) - Literary Origins of the Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind (Hardcover)
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The Chamber of Maiden Thought (Psychology Revivals) - Literary Origins of the Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind (Hardcover)
Series: Psychology Revivals
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Literature is recognised as having significantly influenced the
development of modern psychoanalytic thought. In recent years
psychoanalysis has drawn increasingly on the literary and artistic
traditions of western culture and moved away from its original
medical-scientific context. Originally published in 1991 The
Chamber of Maiden Thought (Keats's metaphor for 'the awakening of
the thinking principle') is an original and revealing exploration
of the seminal role of literature in forming the modern
psychoanalytic model of the mind. The crux of the 'post-Kleinian'
psychoanalytic view of personality development lies in the internal
relations between the self and the mind's 'objects'. Meg Harris
Williams and Margot Waddell show that these relations have their
origins in the drama of identifications which we can see played out
metaphorically and figuratively in literature, which presents the
self-creative process in aesthetic terms. They argue that
psychoanalysis is a true child of literature rather than merely the
interpreter or explainer of literature, illustrating this with some
examples from clinical experience, but drawing above all on close
scrutiny of the dynamic mental processes presented in the work of
Shakespeare, Milton, the Romantic poets, Emily Bronte and George
Eliot. The Chamber of Maiden Thought will encourage psychoanalytic
workers to respond to the influence of literature in exploring
symbolic mental processes. By bringing psychoanalysis into creative
conjunction with the arts, it enables practitioners to tap a
cultural potential whose insights into the human mind are of
immense value.
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