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Transferences: the Aesthetics and Poetics of Therapeutic Relationship
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Transferences: the Aesthetics and Poetics of Therapeutic Relationship
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Transferences: the Aesthetics and Poetics of Therapeutic Relationship
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Why are psychoanalysts fascinated with literature and other arts? And why do so many novels, plays, films, and television series feature therapy sessions?
investigates the interdisciplinary attraction between psychoanalysis and the arts by exploring the therapeutic relationship as a recurring figure in psychoanalytic discourse, literature, theater, and television. In addition to close readings of psychoanalytic and critical texts, the book presents a new approach to examining psychoanalytic themes and formal devices in texts like Philip Roth's
, J. M. Coetzee's
, Margaret Atwood's
, Peter Shaffer's
, and the HBO series
.
argues that psychoanalysts as well as writers and other artists are fascinated by the therapeutic relationship because it provides a unique site to negotiate the narrative and artistic underpinnings of psychoanalysis and reflect and reinvent the aesthetic and poetic potentiality of art.