Malcolm Owen Slavin

The Story of Original Loss (eBook, ePUB)

Grieving Existential Trauma in the Arts and the Art of Psychoanalysis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the universal human existential trauma of "original loss," a trauma the author describes as arising from our primal, human evolutionary loss of experiencing ourselves as innately belonging to, and instinctively at home within, the larger natural world.

In this trauma arose our existential awareness of impermanence and mortality along with the need to mourn that loss in order to create a sense of belonging and identity. The book describes how the invention of art and group ritual became the collective ways we mourn our shared existential loss. It describes as well how it is the art within the psychoanalytic practice that enables both patient and analyst to grieve their individual versions of our shared original loss. Drawing on the work of Winnicott, Loewald and Ogden, as well as art theory and religion, this book offers a new perspective on the intersection of metaphorical artistic thinking and psychoanalysis.

This book will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and scholars of poetic, visual and muscial metaphor, creativity, evolution and history of art.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040018958
• Artikelnr.: 70187342

Autorenporträt

Malcolm Owen Slavin, PhD, is a founder, faculty and supervisor at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, and a director of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and the Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. A Yale graduate, with a PhD in psychology from Harvard, he has authored many papers, including "Why the Analyst Needs to Change," and a book (with D. Kriegman), The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche: Psychoanalysis, Evolutionary Biology, and the Therapeutic Process.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Enigma of Cave Art 2. Original Loss and the Emergence of Existential
Anxiety 3. Surviving Original Loss Part 1: Envisioning Winnicott's
"Transitional Creativity" and "Object Use" in Evolutionary-Existential
Terms 4. Surviving Original Loss Part 2: Envisioning Loewald's Dynamic
Unconscious as an Evolved-Existential Structure 5. Original Loss in
Everyday Life, Part I: A Developmental Story 6. Original Loss in Everyday
Life, Part II: Existential Grieving in Development and Clinical Process 7.
Original Loss and Original Sin 8. After the Fall: From Sin to Loss 9. Why
Do We Need Art? 10. How Art Works 11. Traveling with Metaphor 12. Metaphor,
Playing and Pretending 13. The Art of Losing 14. The Art of Losing and the
Presence of Absence in Metaphor 15. Mourning Versus Melancholia in the Arts
16. From Melancholia to Mourning in The Arabian Nights 17. Loss Made
Visible 18. The Music Knows 19. Epilogue: Home for a Hybrid, Divided
Species