George Hagman

The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience (eBook, ePUB)

Self, Relationship and Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience: Self, Relationship and Culture, George Hagman eloquently provides an overview of ideas regarding the aesthetic foundation of human experience and the way in which this aesthetic perspective can shed light on human development, culture, and analytic clinical process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040385067
• Artikelnr.: 74349116

Autorenporträt

George Hagman is a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst in private practice in Stamford, USA. He is on the faculty of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation (TRISP) and the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is the author of Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists (2016), Creative Analysis: Art, Creativity and Clinical Process (2014), and The Artist's Mind: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Creativity, Modern Art and Modern Artists (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword to the First Edition by Carl Rotenberg xii Preface xiv 1
Introduction 1 The Developmental Matrix of Aesthetic Experience 2
Idealization 3 The Creative Process 4 The Sense of Beauty 6 Ugliness 7 The
Sublime 7 Festival 8 2 Understanding Aesthetic Experience 13 The Philosophy
of Aesthetic Experience 13 A New Psychoanalytic Model of Aesthetic
Experience 24 3 The Development of Aesthetic Experience 27 4 Idealization
and Aesthetic Experience 37 Idealization: A Developmental/Relational Model
43 Clinical Illustration 48 Idealization in Creativity and Aesthetic
Experience 52 5 The Creative Process 55 Creativity and Selfobject
Experience 63 Clinical Illustration 72 6 The Sense of Beauty 77 The
Contribution of Psychoanalysis to Our Understanding of Beauty 79 The
Psychoanalytic Understanding of the Sense of Beauty: An Integration 85 7 On
Ugliness 93 The Problem of Ugliness 94 The Problem of Ugliness and
Psychoanalytic Theory 95 Encountering Ugliness 98 Ugliness in
Psychopathology 106 Clinical Illustration 107 Conclusion 109 8 The Sublime
111 A Brief History of the Sublime 111 Psychoanalytic Contributions to the
Concept of the Sublime 115 The Psychoanalytic Sublime 117 The Maternal
Aesthetic: The Matrix of Beauty 118 The Paternal Aesthetic: The Source of
the Sublime 119 The Psychological Function of the Sublime 126 9 Art and
Self 129 Creativity: Context and Process 133 Art and Gesture 136 What Art
Is 139 Does Art Heal? 140 Psychopathology and Creativity 144 10 Art,
Creativity, and the Clinical Process 146 Aesthetic Experience in Life and
Therapy 146 The Sense of Quality 148 Creativity 150 Case Example: Paul 152
Conclusion 157 11 Festival 158 Metasubjectivity 162 Intersubjectivity 163
Subjectivity 164 Culture 165 12 The Musician and the Creative Process 168
The Psychological Experience of Music 168 Music and the Creative Process
170 Case Illustration: Alan 174 Discussion 177 13 Cruising Beauty:
Obsession and Self-Crisis in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice 179 Discussion
183 Conclusion: Triumphant Beauty 188 14 Hitler's Aesthetics: A
Psychoanalytic Perspective on Art and Fascism 189 The Role of Aesthetics in
Hitler's Life 190 The Longings and Failures of a Young Artist 191 The
Psychological Function of Hitler's Aesthetic 195 Hitler's Hatred of
Modernism 197 The Abuse of Beauty: A Fascist Aesthetic 199 In the End 200
References 202 Index 207