Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D., is Distinguished Scholar, Professor of French, and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Montclair State University, where she teaches courses in both literature and applied psychoanalysis. She has published over 80 papers and authored or edited 10 previous books, the most recent being A Curious Intimacy: Art and Neuro-Psychoanalysis and The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett's Dialogue with Art. She is Scholar Associate Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and Honorary Member of the William Alanson White Society. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Psychiatric Institute of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, on the Boards of The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination and the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies, and a past president of the international Samuel Beckett Society. Her interview series, "Conversations with...," at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute is a popular forum for discussions on creativity. She is co-creator of the documentary film on mental health stigma (currently in production) called The Madness Project.
Introduction. Part I: "Imagination Dead Imagine." Whence the Image? The
Phenomenology of Fantasy. "Insighting" in Psychoanalysis and Art. Part II:
Monkey See, Monkey Do. The Transgenerational Transmission of Fantasy. The
Anxiety of Influence Revisited: Artists of Artist Parents. Part III: The
"Blindness of the Seeing Eye." Creativity: Friend and Foe. Neurobiologic
and Psychodynamic Concordances: "Transference" and "Countertransference" in
Art. Conclusion.
