Spirit that Impels : Play, Creativity and Psychoanalysis.

281 Pages·2014·1.197 MB·English

by  Fromm, M. Gerard

CHAPTERTITLE I
A SPIRIT THAT IMPELS

A SPIRIT THAT IMPELS
Play, Creativity, and
Psychoanalysis
Edited by
M. Gerard Fromm
First published in 2014 by
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS xi
INTRODUCTIONby M. Gerard Fromm xv
INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTER ONE 1
On (not) being able to paint: the 2003 Creativity Seminar
CHAPTER ONE
Creativity and psychoanalysis 3
Christopher Bollas
INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTERS TWO AND THREE 21
The Scarlet Letter—the artist and analyst as outsiders:
the 2004 Creativity Seminar
CHAPTER TWO
A moonlight visibility: turning The Scarlet Letter 25
into a play
Carol Gilligan
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CHAPTER THREE
Dimmesdale’s ailment, Hawthorne’s insight 35
M. Gerard Fromm
INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTER FOUR 49
Mahler, Freud, and the symphony of a thousand:
the 2005 Creativity Seminar
CHAPTER FOUR
Sublimation and das Dingin Mahler’s 53
Symphony No. 8
John Muller
INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTER FIVE 75
The play’s the thing: the 2006 Creativity Seminar
CHAPTER FIVE
Stepping on to the transference stage: from actualised 77
unconscious trauma to therapeutic play
J. Christopher Fowler
INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTER SIX 91
Creativity at the extremes: the 2007 Creativity Seminar
CHAPTER SIX
Pattern as inspiration and mode of communication 95
in the works of Van Gogh
Marilyn Charles and Karen Telis
INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTER SEVEN
Chaos is come again—creativity, chaos and change:
the 2008 Creativity Seminar 123
CHAPTER SEVEN
Photography as transitional functioning 125
M. Gerard Fromm
INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTERS EIGHT AND NINE 153
Miracle workers—transformation through creativity:
the 2009 Creativity Seminar
CONTENTS vii
CHAPTER EIGHT
To teach and to treat: meditations on The Miracle Worker 155
Ellen Handler Spitz
CHAPTER NINE
Unconscious creative activity and the restoration 171
of reverie
M. Gerard Fromm
INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTER TEN 193
Creative collaborations: the 2010 Creativity Seminar
CHAPTER TEN
Two of us: inside the Lennon–McCartney connection 195
Joshua Wolf Shenk
INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTER ELEVEN 215
Finding voice, lifting voices—creativity and oppression:
the 2011 Creativity Seminar
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Oppression, healing and Delia’s story 217
Rochleigh Z. Wholfe
INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTER TWELVE 231
The brightening glance—creativity and childhood:
the 2012 Creativity Seminar
CHAPTER TWELVE
Snapshots of childhood creativity in science, music, and art: 233
Richard Feynman, Clara Schumann, and René Magritte
Ellen Handler Spitz
AFTERWORD
Tell me a story—creativity and storytelling: 249
the 2013 Creativity Seminar
INDEX 251
To Edouard, Kevin, Mark, Michael, Paula and Sandy
To Paula, Anna, and Leo
To Joan and Erik
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Many of the chapters that follow have been previously published in
slightly revised form elsewhere. I am grateful to the publishers for
their kind permission to collect them in this volume.
Chapter One, by Christopher Bollas, was previously published
under the same title in The Mystery of Things (1999, pp. 167–180). It is
being reprinted here with the permission of Taylor and Francis Books
UK.
Chapters Two and Three, by Carol Gilligan and me respectively,
were originally published under the same titles in Hawthorne Revisited
(2004, pp. 83–91 and 99–112). David Scribner edited this volume for
the Lenox Library Association, University Press of New England:
Hanover, NH.
Chapter Four, by John Muller, was originally published under the
same title in The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, LXXVII: 569–596, 2008, John
Wiley and Sons.
Chapter Six, by Marilyn Charles and Karen Tellis, was originally
published under the same title in American Journal of Psychoanalysis,
2009, 69: 238–262, reprinted by permission from Macmillan Pub-
lishers, published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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