Description
This book explores the phenomenon of creativity and creation from a psychoanalytic point of view, focusing on understanding the psychoemotional dynamics underlying artistic creative activities, such as theatre, literature, and painting.
Throughout, Delgado considers these works of art through a Bionian, Kleinian, and Freudian lens. He uses three major psychoanalytic models of the creative process, two of them classic: the first, Freudian, based on the theory of conflict between impulse and defense, the result of the effort to manage an excessive drive activity, and in which the concept of sublimation is central; the second, Kleinian, based on the attachment theory, in which creative effort corresponds to an attempt to repair the damage done to the object or to the self; and the third, more recent, affiliated with the more expanded attachment relationship theory, based on W. Bion’s theory of thinking, and emphasizing the continent’s capacity for psyche and the oscillation between schizo-paranoid and depressive positions.
With illustrations throughout, this book will be vital reading for anyone interested in the intersection of creativity, the Arts, and psychoanalysis.
Table of Contents
Theoretical Introduction 1. Freudian Sublimation in Artistic Creation 2. The Need for Repair as an Impetus for Artistic Creation 3. Dialogue between D. Winnicott and S. Arietti concerning ‘I and the Village’ (Chagall, 1911) 4. Wilfred Bion’s concepts of continent function and SP<–>D in understanding artistic creative activity 5. Bion and the Popes of Horror: Theory of Transformations 6. Monologues and dialogues in James Joyce’s work: Through the eyes of Bion and Ferro 7. GALILEO GALILEI, by Bertolt Brecht, as a metaphor for the continuous transformational movement of thought 8. Some Psychological Dimensions Presents in the Activity of Creative Writer and Reader 9. Synthesis and final comments: Language of achievement
