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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