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Author Knafo, Danielle

Title Unconscious fantasies and the relational world / Danielle Knafo and Kenneth Feiner
Published Hillsdale, NJ : Analytic Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 222 pages) : illustrations
Series Relational perspectives book series ; v. 31
Relational perspectives book series ; v. 31.
Contents Unconscious fantasies and psychic structure -- The primal scene: variations on a theme -- Blue Velvet: David Lynch's primal scene [cinema] -- Not in the family: family romance fantasies and enactments in psychoanalysis -- Fact, fantasy, and fiction: Jerzy Kosinski's family romance and imposture [literature] -- Castration fantasies, sexual difference, and mind-body matters -- Now you see it, now you don't: a case study of castration and "omnisexuality" -- Art on the cutting edge: Orlan's Medusan female [visual/performance art]
Summary What is the role of unconscious fantasies in psychological development, in psychopathology, and in the arts? In Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World, Danielle Knafo and Kenneth Feiner return to these interlinked questions with a specific goal in mind: a contemporary appreciation of fantasy in its multiform relational contexts. To this end, they provide detailed examinations of primal scene, family romance, and castration fantasies, respectively. Each category of fantasy is pushed beyond its ""classical"" psychoanalytic meaning by attending to the child's ubiquitous c
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index
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Subject Fantasy.
Psychoanalysis.
Imagination.
Art.
Fantasy
Art
Interpersonal Relations
Psychoanalytic Theory
Psychoanalytic Therapy
psychoanalysis.
fantasy (imagination)
PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
Art
Fantasy
Imagination
Psychoanalysis
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author Feiner, Kenneth
ISBN 9781134912940
1134912943
9780203780626
0203780620