Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla

Goethe's Path to Creativity (eBook, ePUB)

A Psycho-Biography of the Eminent Politician, Scientist and Poet

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Goethe's Path to Creativity provides a comprehensive psycho-biography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a giant of modern German and European literary, political, and scientific history. The book brings this influential work by Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla to the English language for the first time in a newly elaborated edition.

Goethe's path to creativity was difficult and beset by a multitude of crises, beginning with his birth, which was so difficult that he was initially not thought to have survived it, and ending with an infatuation that left him, at the age of 74, toying with the same kind of suicidal thoughts he had entertained as a 20-year-old. Throughout his long life, he suffered bitter disappointments and was subject to severe mood swings. Despite being a gifted child, a widely recognized poet, and an influential scientist and politician, he spent his entire life loving and suffering; nonetheless, he had the exceptional ability to endure emotional pain and to transform his sufferings creatively. The way in which he mined his passions for creative impulses continues to inspire modern readers. Readers can apply the lessons they have learned from his life and use Goethe's strategies for their own creative art of living.



Goethe's Path to Creativity: A Psycho-Biography of the Eminent Politician, Scientist and Poet will be of great interest to all engaged in the fields of creativity, literature, psychoanalysis, psychology, psychotherapy, and personal growth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429860997
• Artikelnr.: 58397470

Autorenporträt

Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla is Professor for Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine, and Psychotherapy at Heidelberg University, Germany. He is a Training Analyst (IPA) and teaches at universities in Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile and at the Pop-Academy, Mannheim. Professor Holm-Hadulla is the author of over 100 scientific papers, as well as six books on creativity, counselling, and psychotherapy, including The Art of Counselling and Psychotherapy (Karnac 2004) and The Recovered Voice: Tales of Practical Psychotherapy (Karnac 2017). Previous versions of his Psycho-Biography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe have been published in German, Spanish, Italian, and Persian.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Goethe
s path to creativity Part I Goethe
s life and work 1 Childhood and youth: Frankfurt, 1749
1765 2 Crises during his student days: Leipzig, 1765
1768 3 Return to the family home: Frankfurt, 1768
1770 4 Flight from love: Strasbourg, 1770
1771 5 Refuge at home again: Frankfurt, 1771
1772 6 Passion and renunciation: Wetzlar, 1772 7 Period of genius: Frankfurt, 1772
1775 8 Early dramas: Reflection of Goethe
s emotional conflicts 9 Period of maturity: Weimar, 1775
1786 10 Rebirth in Italy, 1786
1788 11 His great love and public influence: Weimar, 1788
1805 12 Political changes and new passions: 1806
1823 13 Love in old age and late creativity: 1821
1832 Part II Creativity, art of living, and illness 14 Life as creative self-realization: The Wilhelm Meister project 15 Goethe
s creativity from the perspective of modern creativity research 16 Goethe
s creative art of living and self-treatment strategies 17 Goethe
s creative bipolarity and "healthy illness" Part III Goethe
s legacy 18 Goethe
s late poem Legacy 19 Goethe
s final letter 20 Goethe
s "inner fairytale": The psychological messages of Faust II