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The Power of Music - Psychoanalytic Explorations (Paperback)
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The Power of Music - Psychoanalytic Explorations (Paperback)
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Emotion is an integral aspect of musical experience; music has the
power to take us on an emotional and intellectual journey,
transforming the listener along the way. The aim of this book is to
examine the nature of this journey, using a variety of
perspectives. No one discipline can do justice to music's
complexity if one is to have a sense of the whole musical
experience, even if one has to break up the whole experience into
various elements for the purposes of clarification. The issues
raised have some relationship to psychoanalytic understanding and
listening, as after all psychoanalysis is a listening discipline;
its bedrock is listening to the patient's communications. While of
course there are significant differences between understanding of,
and listening to, a musical performance and a patient in a
consulting room, the book explores common ground. Evidence from
neuroscience indicates that music acts on a number of different
brain sites, and that the brain is likely to be hard-wired for
musical perception and appreciation, and this offers some kind of
neurological substrate for musical experiences, or a parallel mode
of explanation for music's multiple effects on individuals and
groups. After various excursions into early mother/baby
experiences, evolutionary speculations, and neuroscientific
findings, the book's main emphasis is that it is the intensity of
the artistic vision which is responsible for music's power. That
intense vision invites the viewer or the listener into the orbit of
the work, engaging us to respond to the particular vision in an
essentially intersubjective relationship between the work and the
observer or listener. This is the area of what we might call the
human soul. Music can be described as having soul when it hits the
emotional core of the listener. And, of course, there is 'soul
music', whose basic rhythms reach deep into the body to create a
powerful feeling of aliveness. One can truly say that music of all
the arts is most able to give shape to the elusive human subject or
soul.
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