Eyes, Mind and Vision : Visual Realities and Metaphors in Psychoanalysis

Akhtar, Salman (EDT)/ Savelle-Rocklin, Nina (EDT)

Phoenix Publishing House（2026/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 318 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781800134157
• DDC分類 150.195

Full Description

This pioneering work introduces the concept of psychoanalytic ophthalmology with chapters from Salman Akhtar, Suzanne Benser, Cemile Serin Gürdal, Richard K. Hertel, Alan Michael Karbelnig, Nilofer Kaul, Toni Mandelbaum, Anneliese Riess, Nina Savelle-Rocklin, Brian Watermeyer, and Thomas Wolman.

Eyes play a role in a number of diverse psychopathologies, including hallucinations, blindness, voyeurism, and the feeling of being invisible or, conversely, under constant surveillance. Yet, vision is more than mere physical sight. There exist cultural notions, such as the "evil eye" and the mythic self-blinding of Oedipus, and the actions of seeing, looking, and watching (and the passive being seen, being looked at, being watched) play a huge part in childhood psychological development and adult psychosocial functioning. Our ocular experience begins with the maternal gaze and the eye-to-eye contact of mother and infant, which moves on to the ubiquitous "peek-a-boo" game, young children shouting "look at me!", adolescents torn between wanting to be seen and to be invisible, the locked eyes of adult lovers, and so much more. Eyes can express respect or contempt, love or hate; they are called the windows to the soul. This collection of inspiring papers brings a much-needed focus on their varied and multi-layered role in our physical and mental lives and their continuing and overlooked importance in psychoanalytic theory and practice. This enjoyable book is ideal reading for academics and clinicians.

Contents

Acknowledgments

About the editors and contributors

Introduction

Prologue

1. The mother's eye

Anneliese Riess

Part I: Developmental Realm

2. Vision, attachment, and the development of the self

Toni Mandelbaum

3. Primal scene and other cocreated "wild things"

Cemile Serin Gürdal

Part II: Cultural Realm

4. The spectrum of sight in literary and psychoanalytic narratives

Nilofer Kaul

5. Psychoanalytic aspects of blindness as depicted in three Hollywood films

Thomas Wolman

6. The lethal psychic blindness about global warming and nuclear threat

Alan Michael Karbelnig

Part III: Clinical Realm

7. Blindness, psychoanalysis, and the denial of our shared human condition

Brian Watermeyer

8. The impact of childhood visual difficulties on adult psychic functioning

Richard K. Hertel

9. On feeling watched

Nina Savelle-Rocklin

10. Voyeurism

Salman Akhtar

Epilogue

11. The analyst's eye

Suzanne Benser

References

Index