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The Vale of Soulmaking - The Post-Kleinian Model of the Mind (Paperback)
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The Vale of Soulmaking - The Post-Kleinian Model of the Mind (Paperback)
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"The Vale of Soul-Making" promises to become the text for
post-Kleinian thought.. and the upshot of it all is to establish
Mrs Klein as the first 'post-Kleinian'."-- Donald MeltzerPoets have
always seen themselves as inspired by their Muse. In this book this
is taken literally, not just metaphorically, to be a faithful
description of an internal identification with a teaching object or
deity that governs the adventure of writing the poem. The central
concern of the book is therefore the relationship of each
individual poet with his Muse, as worked out "on the pulses"
through the expressive qualities of poetic language. The awesome
qualities of the internal Muse were discovered by Melanie Klein in
the "combined object," and developed into a theory of knowledge by
Wilfred Bion and Donald Meltzer, who have shown how "learning from
experience" occurs by repeatedly confronting the aesthetic conflict
evoked by the internal object at points of "catastrophic change" in
mental evolution.The impelling nature of the quest for knowledge of
the inner world prompted Keats to describe the world as a "vale of
soul-making," teeming with opportunities for mental growth under
the guidance of internal "mediators." The self-analysis of Keats
and other poets by incorporating poetic qualities into their own
evolving Muse provides a fascinating model of development through
"influence" in a way that illuminates the complexity of
identification in psychoanalysis, a process at whose core Meltzer
locates the "counter-transference dream."
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