Art in Psychoanalysis

Gabriela Goldstein is a practicing psychoanalyst, a full member and training analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association and representative on the Board, and a past member of the Publications Committee. She is also a member of the Psychoanalysis and Culture Committee of the IPA, and the author of 'The Aesthetic Experience: Writings on Art and Psychoanalysis', as well as various articles and book chapters on the subjects of art, love and sexuality. She received the Baranger-Mom award in 2003, and the Storni award in 2004. She is also an architect and a painter.

'I can proudly confirm that this book presents the most updated and culturally innovative contribution to the fields of psychoanalysis and art. The widest, most renowned and internationally connected psychoanalytic community - the International Psychoanalytical Association - offers an amazing collection of essays that explore the many aspects of contemporary psychoanalytic creativity and of research into the artistic sphere. As readers will acknowledge, "the art of psychoanalysis" and "the psychoanalysis of art" are engaged in a much more natural and harmonious dialogue than they had been in the past, when there existed manifold uncertainties about reciprocal boundaries and potential conflict of competencies between these two fascinating worlds. Art in Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Approach to Creativity and Analytic Practice constitutes a paramount example of this dialogue. The authors go beyond the traditional analytic interpretation of art to shed light on its function and the latter's implications for clinical practice. Both analysts and artists, from very different places, experience the unending task of the creative process. The deep contact with the unconscious and preconscious, the intra- and intersubjective interplay in the intermediate area, the special alternation of primary and secondary processes, the inquiry into tertiary processes, the ability to master entering and leaving the timeless dimension, and cultural respect toward diverse experiences and approaches render contemporary analysts into the most suitable explorers of the artistic universe. At the same time, such exploration offers new perspectives to tackle challenges posed to analysts by present-day society. After more than one century of psychoanalysis, a new extraordinary vision is achieved on art and on the creativity of analytic work, as this multifaceted book wonderfully demonstrates.'- Dr. Stefano Bolognini, former president Soc. Psi. of Italy and president elect of the International Psychoanalytical Association

• CHAPTER ONE Form and content in the visual arts: a psychoanalytic Perspective CHAPTER TWO Implicit motion in non-verbal art: transmission and transformation of affect, CHAPTER THREE Picasso’s prolonged adolescence, his Blue Period, and blind figures CHAPTER FOUR Psychoanalysis and art: from applied analysis to interdisciplinary dialogue CHAPTER FIVE From a source to a fountain, or from the sublime to the uncanny CHAPTER SIX Creative processes in art and psychoanalysis: moving towards an expanded metapsychology CHAPTER SEVEN In between and across CHAPTER EIGHT A fragment of the complex world: resorting to creation in the midst of negation, disavowal, and working through CHAPTER NINE Living creatively: the concept of a sound-minded individual and the healing phenomena CHAPTER TEN To heal or create, to create and heal: in search of their author CHAPTER ELEVEN The greatest love of all