Transferences: The Aesthetics and Poetics of the Therapeutic Relationship

Author(s) : Maren Scheurer

Transferences: The Aesthetics and Poetics of the Therapeutic Relationship

Book Details

  • Publisher : Bloomsbury
  • Published : 2021
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 336
  • Category :
    Culture and Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 97862
  • ISBN 13 : 9781501381447
  • ISBN 10 : 150138144X

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Part I - Introduction
1. Psychoanalysis and the Arts
2. The Therapeutic Relationship

Part II - Discourses in Dialogue: The Aesthetics and Poetics of Therapeutic Relationships
3. The Art of the Therapeutic Relationship: Psychoanalytic Aesthetics
4. Art as (Therapeutic) Relationship: Relational Models of Creativity, Reading, and Interpretation

Part III - Reading Relationships: Therapy in Literature, Theater, and Television
5. “I'm Telling Everything”: Psychoanalytic Gameply in Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint
6. “A Gap, a Hole, a Darkness”: Epistemic Desire in J. M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K
7. “To Keep the Sultan Amused”: Scheherazadian Narration in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace
8. “Act It Out, If You Like”: Anti- and Stage-Psychiatry in Peter Shaffer's Equus
9. “Locked in a Room, Listening”: Talk-Show Therapy and Co-Construction in In Treatment

Part IV - In Conclusion

Works Cited
Notes
Index

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