Leonard Shengold

Is There Life Without Mother?

Psychoanalysis, Biography, Creativity

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Produktbeschreibung

In this richly textured study of personal growth and cretivity hemmed in by childhood disaster, Shengold compares the differing gifts and differing solutions of extraordinary talents as they seek to negotiate a universal longing to refind the mother with

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781138009790
• ISBN-10: 1138009792
• Artikelnr.: 40816980

Autorenporträt

Leonard Shengold, M.D., making use of literary works and lives to illustrate his clinical observations, has written extensively on clinical subjects such as incest and child abuse(soul murder), on historical subjects such as Freud biography, and on literary subjects such as Shakespeare, Dickens, Chekhov, and Orwell, among others. Dr. Shengold is a Clinical Professor at New York University Medical School and a Training Analyst and former Director of the NYU Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is a recipient of the Sigourney Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychoanalysis.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Biography. Another Impossible Profession. Artistic Creativity.
Clinical and Literary Examples. The Primal Parent: A Patient's Cry. Part
II: Literary Lives. Jules Renard: Soul Murder in Life and Literature.
Trollope: His Life and Creativity. School Days and After: Disorder and
Early Sorrow, and Recovery. Trollope's Writing Method. Daydreaming in the
Service of Creativity and of Sexuality. Identity and Fiction: Father and
Son. Identity and Fiction: The Nuances of Resentment. What Was Trollope
Like? Trollope's Love for His Characters 14. Trollope's Death 15. Trollope
with Mother. Part III: Conclusion and Epilogue. Conclusion and More
Literary Examples. Epilogue: Multiple Personalities.