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Transferences: The Aesthetics and Poetics of the Therapeutic Relationship

Transferences: The Aesthetics and Poetics of the Therapeutic Relationship

Hardcover

Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons

Literary CriticismGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 150135244X
ISBN13: 9781501352447
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Oct 3 2019
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

Why are psychoanalysts fascinated with literature and other arts? And why do so many novels, plays, films, and television series feature therapy sessions? Transferences investigates the interdisciplinary attraction between psychoanalysis and the arts by exploring the therapeutic relationship as a recurring figure in psychoanalytic discourse, literature, theater, and television. In addition to close readings of psychoanalytic and critical texts, the book presents a new approach to examining psychoanalytic themes and formal devices in texts like Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, J. M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K, Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, Peter Shaffer's Equus, and the HBO series In Treatment.

Transferences argues that psychoanalysts as well as writers and other artists are fascinated by the therapeutic relationship because it provides a unique site to negotiate the narrative and artistic underpinnings of psychoanalysis and reflect and reinvent the aesthetic and poetic potentiality of art.

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