Full Description
The motif of time and space runs as a continual thread through this book, which examines the relationship between psychotherapy and the theatre as underpinned by Winnicott's writings. The author supplements her theories with Jung's ideas on self, the writings of Lacan and the prose, drama and poetry of Yeats - an unusual blend between diverse and often opposing schools of thought.
Contents
Preface , Introduction , Signs and Spaces , Language, space, and meaning-making , The genesis of meaning-making , A time and a place for playing: transitional phenomena , "An act apart": meaning-making in theatre and therapy , Analytic interpretation: games and playing , Interpretation and playing: freedom of association , No-space: psychotic meaning-making and regression , The Struggle between Masks , The mask of language , Forced masks and free masks , Child's play: show and hide , The search for free masks , Signs and Times , Time, fantasy, and imagination , "A dead, living murdered man!" , This year , ... Next year ... , Sometime: the past and the future perfect , Never , The who you dream yourself
