Women and Creativity: A Psychoanalytic Glimpse Through Art, Literature, and Social Structure PDF
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WOMEN AND CREATIVITY Psychoanalysis & Women Series Series Editor: Frances Thomson-Salo Feminine Sensuality Alcira Mariam Alizade The Embodied Female Edited by Alcira Mariam Alizade Studies on Femininity Edited by Alcira Mariam Alizade Masculine Scenarios Edited by Alcira Mariam Alizade On Incest: Psychoanalytic Perspectives Edited by Giovanna Ambrosio Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Alcira Mariam Alizade Masculinity and Femininity Today Edited by Ester Palerm Marí and Frances Thomson-Salo WOMEN AND CREATIVITY A Psychoanalytic Glimpse Through Art, Literature, and Social Structure Edited by Laura Tognoli Pasquali and Frances Thomson-Salo A volume in the Psychoanalysis & Women Series for the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Association First published in 2014 by Karnac Books Ltd 118 Finchley Road London NW3 5HT Copyright © 2014 to Laura Tognoli Pasquali and Frances Thomson-Salo for the edited collection, and to the individual authors for their contributions. The rights of the contributors to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13: 978-1-78220-145-8 Typeset by V Publishing Solutions Pvt Ltd., Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain www.karnacbooks.com CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS xi INTRODUCTION xix Laura Tognoli Pasquali and Frances Thomson-Salo PART I: CREATIVITY IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY CHAPTER ONE Creativity and authenticity 3 Irma Brenman Pick CHAPTER TWO Discussion of “Creativity and authenticity” by Irma Brenman Pick 15 Jordi Sala v vi CONTENTS CHAPTER THREE Listening, technique, and all that jazz 21 Barbie Antonis CHAPTER FOUR William, did you say, “Much Ado about Nothing”? 37 Juan Eduardo Tesone CHAPTER FIVE Discussion of “William, did you say: ‘Much Ado about Nothing’?” by Juan Eduardo Tesone 51 Ingrid Moeslein-Teising CHAPTER SIX Female elements and functions in creativity 61 Maria Adelaide Lupinacci CHAPTER SEVEN Women and creativity 69 Maria Pia Conte PART II: CREATIVITY IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICE THROUGHOUT THE LIFE CYCLE CHAPTER EIGHT When creativity restarts: distorted and adaptive forms 79 Frances Thomson-Salo CHAPTER NINE A little girl’s analysis 91 Tonia Cancrini and Luisa Cerqua CHAPTER TEN A psychoanalyst in the labour room: the birth of emotions 103 Laura Tognoli Pasquali CHAPTER ELEVEN Generativity and creativity: dialogue between an obstetrician and a psychoanalyst 111 Sandra Morano and Anna Maria Risso CONTENTS vii CHAPTER TWELVE Dreaming about pregnancy when it is not there: two clinical cases 123 Anna Barlocco CHAPTER THIRTEEN A particular kind of sterility 145 Jones De Luca CHAPTER FOURTEEN Discussion of “A particular kind of sterility” by Jones de Luca 163 Ester Palerm Mari CHAPTER FIFTEEN “With you I can bleat my heart out”—older women in psychoanalytic practice 173 Christiane Schrader PART III: CREATIVITY IN THE ARTS AND LITERATURE CHAPTER SIXTEEN Using contents from a sewing box: some aspects of the artwork of Sonia Delaunay and Louise Bourgeois 197 Maria Grazia Vassallo Torrigiani CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Commentary on Brodeuses 213 Maria Teresa Palladino CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The voice of the mother in To the Lighthouse 221 Nadia Fusini PART IV: LIVING CREATIVELY IN SOCIETY CHAPTER NINETEEN Happily ever after: depictions of coming of age in fairy tales 237 Cecile R. Bassen viii CONTENTS CHAPTER TWENTY Cultural altruism and masochism in women in the East 255 Jhuma Basak CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Horses and other animals: some background obstacles to female creativity in Russia 267 Marina Arutyunyan CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Is healing possible for women survivors of domestic violence? 279 Nicoletta Livi Bacci CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE No peaceable woman: creativity in feminist political psychoanalysis—commemorating Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen (17.7.1917–12.6.2012) 287 Ingrid Moeslein-Teising, Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp, Christiane Schrader, and Almuth Sellschopp CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Should we as psychoanalysts apologise to women? 301 I. Maria Pia Conte II. Laura Tognoli Pasquali AFTERWORD 323 Frances Thomson-Salo INDEX 325 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We dedicate this book to the memory of Alcira Mariam Alizade. She was a most generous and tireless promoter of COWAP’s activities. Her intelligence, passion, and vitality were invested in theoretical and clini- cal studies of sexuality and gender, where her contribution was most valued. Her original thinking, writing, and editorship of the Karnac Women and Psychoanalysis book series, made her a significant person for contemporary psychoanalysis. Mariam Alizade was very creative, with many ideas that were yet to come. * * * We wish to thank the authors who contributed so generously to this book. Lastly we thank the International Psychoanalytical Association for their ongoing commitment to the work of the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis. * * * ix
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