| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 235 pages) |
| Contents |
COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; Introduction; PART I THE CONTEXT AND EVENTS OF BECKETT'S PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH BION; CHAPTER ONE Presenting problems; CHAPTER TWO Proust as metapsychology; CHAPTER THREE The first year of treatment: 1934; CHAPTER FOUR Year two: 1935; CHAPTER FIVE Broadening the context of this psychotherapy; CHAPTER SIX Beckett's Bion and Bion's Bion; PART II AN INTERPRETATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF BECKETT'S LITERARY DEVELOPMENT AND BION'S LATER CLINICAL THEORIES; CHAPTER SEVEN Free association: Beckett's private theatre; CHAPTER EIGHT The novellas: Part One |
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CHAPTER NINE The novellas: Part TwoCHAPTER TEN Three essays on "the trilogy"; CHAPTER ELEVEN The psychology of characters; CHAPTER TWELVE Reaching the limit offree association; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Patient Zero: learning from the Beckett experience; Conclusion; REFERENCES; INDEX |
| Summary |
This book focuses on Samuel Beckett's psychoanalytic psychotherapy with W.R. Bion as a central aspect both of Beckett's and Bion's radical transformations of literature and psychoanalysis. The recent publication of Beckett's correspondence during the period of his psychotherapy with Bion provides a starting place for an imaginative reconstruction of this psychotherapy, culminating with Bion's famous invitation to his patient to dinner and a lecture by C.G. Jung. Following from the course of this psychotherapy, Miller and Souter trace the development of Beckett's radical use of clinical psycho |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Bion, Wilfred R. (Wilfred Ruprecht), 1897-1979 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 fast |
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Bion, Wilfred R. (Wilfred Ruprecht), 1897-1979 fast |
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Psychotherapy and literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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Psychotherapy and literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Souter, Kay
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| ISBN |
9781782410881 |
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1782410880 |
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9781781812204 |
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1781812209 |
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0367101629 |
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9780367101626 |
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0429472226 |
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9780429472220 |
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