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Imaginary existences :

(Number (ISBN

0415749433

(Number (ISBN

0415749441

(Number (ISBN

9780415749435

(Number (ISBN

9780415749442

Erroneous ISBN

9781315761275

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Title Proper

Imaginary existences :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a psychoanalytic exploration of phantasy, fiction, dreams and daydreams /

First Statement of Responsibility

Ignês Sodré, edited and with an introduction by Priscilla Roth, general editor, Alessandra Lemma.

Edition Statement

First Edition.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxiv, 268 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Series Title

New library of psychoanalysis

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-260) and index.

Text of Note

"Imaginary Existences: Dream Daydream Phantasy Fiction interweaves scholarly psychoanalytic knowledge and extensive clinical experience with insights derived from close readings of great literature in a uniquely imaginative and creative manner, convincingly demonstrating how these two ways of thinking - psychoanalysis and literary criticism - organically relate to each other. This is simultaneously a psychoanalytic book and a book about literature, illuminating the imaginative possibilities present within both the psychoanalytic encounter and the act of reading fiction. Scholarly and well researched, the psychoanalytic ideas presented have their basis in the work of Freud and Klein and some of their followers; the extensive and innovative writing about the great authors in Western literature is equally scholarly and lucent. Here, Ignes Sodre eplores creativity itself and, specifically, the impediments to creative thinking: defences, mostly narcissistic, against dependency, guilt and loss, and the mis-use of imagination to deny reality. In her studies of the characters created by authors such as George Eliot, Cervantes, Flaubert, Thomas Mann, Proust and Shakespeare, Sodre examines the way great writers create characters who mis-use their imagination, twisting reality into romantic daydreams or sado-masochistic enactments, which petrify experience and freeze the fluidity of thought. Her clinical studies continue and expand this theme, broadening the field and lending verification and weight to the arguments"--

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Psychoanalysis.

Imagination.

Literature.

Psychoanalysis.

LITERARY CRITICISM / General.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Psychoanalysis.

PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis.

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System Code

Sodré, Ignês

Date of Transaction

20150409043400.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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