The Vale of Soulmaking: The Post-Kleinian Model of the Mind
Author:   Meg Harris Williams
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   272
Publication Date:   14 June 2019
Format:   Hardback
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The Vale of Soulmaking: The Post-Kleinian Model of the Mind


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The post-Kleinian model of the mind, as developed by W. R. Bion and Donald Meltzer, is essentially an aesthetic one. It is founded on Melanie Klein's discovery of the ""internal object"" with its combined masculine and feminine qualities and ambiguous, awe-inspiring nature. Turbulent emotional experiences are repeatedly transformed through symbol-formation, on the basis of the internal relationship between the infant self and its object; and the aesthetic containment provided by this ""counter-transference dream"" (as Meltzer put it) enables the mind to digest its conflicts and develop.This search for a pattern that can make ""contrary"" emotions thinkable is modelled by all art forms and accounts for their universal significance. It is a process that can be observed particularly clearly in literature, in the form of the romance between the poet and his Muse (the traditional formulation of the psycho-analytic internal object).

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Author:   Meg Harris Williams
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9780367105358


ISBN 10:   0367105357
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   14 June 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Foreword , Introduction , The stroke of the axe , The evolution of Psyche , Milton as Muse , The fall and rise of Eve , Oedipus at the crossroads , The weavings of Athene , Cleopatra’s monument , Creativity and the countertransference , Post-Kleinian poetics , Rosemary’s roots , Confessions of an emmature superego or, the Ayah’s lament

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