Psychoanalysis and Literature de Marilyn Charles

Psychoanalysis and Literature

Marilyn Charles

Psychoanalysis offers many concepts that are extremely useful clinically but not always accessible in the original. In Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Stories We Live, Marilyn Charles pairs case vignettes with examples from literature to highlight the essential human struggles that play out in the consulting room. This pairing depathologizes those struggles and offers a conceptual framework that can help the clinician facilitate these journeys of discovery. Describing first how literature affords an opportunity for vicarious engagement with struggles endemic to the human condition, she then focuses on trauma, dreams, and 'cultural collisions' turning more explicitly to the developmental challenges of identity, relatedness, aging, and generativity. Psychoanalysis and Literature is accessible, relevant, and timely.

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Part I: LITERATURE, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND SENSORY EXPERIENCE Introduction 1.Epiphany: The Poet¿s Art, The Analyst¿s Instrument: Formal Structure as a Vehicle for the Expression of Primary Experience: To the Lighthouse 2.The Waves: Tensions between Creativity and Containment in the Life and Writings of Virginia Woolf Part II: TRAUMA 3.Falling Man: Encounters with Catastrophic Change 4.Telling Trauma: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Part III: DREAMS 5.The Book of Intimate Grammar: Transgenerational Trauma 6.Dreamscapes: Rectangular Spaces in Memoirs of a Survivor and in Dreams 7.Pictures at an Exhibition: Reparation and Redemption, Nightmare and Memory Part IV: CULTURAL COLLISIONS 8.Collisions Between Conscious and Unconscious; East and West; Enigma and Transparency: Kafka on the Shore 9.Cultural Chasms: Catastrophic Change and the Excluded Other: Mulberry and Peach Part V: THE HERO¿S QUEST: IDENTITY AND RELATEDNESS 10.The Labyrinth, Part I: The Magus 11.Journeys into the Labyrinth, Part II: Through the Unknown, Remembered Gate: The Glass Bead Game 12.Standing Outside the Gates: Pierre, or the Ambiguities 13.Identity Derailed: The Echo Maker Part VI: RELATEDNESS, AGING, AND GENERATIVITY 14.Identity, Community, and Object Choice, Part I: Mrs. Dalloway and Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing 15.Identity, Community, and Object Choice, Part II: Possession 16. Aging and Death: The Map and the Territory, The Sense of an Ending, and All Passion

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Marilyn Charles is noted for her efforts to translate dense psychoanalytic terms into language that is accessible and clinically relevant. In Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Life: The Stories We Live, she pairs case vignettes with examples from literature to highlight essential human struggles that play out in the consulting room.