In this provocative, closely argued book, Ellen Handler Spitz explores three principal psychoanalytic approaches to art. The first considers the relations between an artist's life and work; the second focuses on the work of art itself; and the third encompasses the intricate relations between a work of art and its audience or beholders. To illustrate her theoretical discussion, Spitz draws on a variety of art forms, including painting, sculpture, literature, music, and dance. "No one who is concerned with the psychoanalytic study of art can afford to neglect [this book]; no one who cares about the art of psychoanalysis should ignore it."--Aaron H. Esman, M.D., Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association "This book ... should prove fascinating to all who are concerned with works of art as expressions of the human mind and heart."--Shehira Davezac, Hospital and Community Psychiatry "This book is highly recommended to all who enjoy the multiple applications of analytic thought to extend our senses."--Jay Lefer, Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis Ellen Handler Spitz holds degrees in art history, aesthetics, and education from Barnard College, Harvard University, and Columbia University. She was trained as a special candidate at the Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Columbia University.

Psyche and the Arts challenges existing ideas about the relationship between Jung and art, and offers exciting new dimensions to key issues such as the role of image in popular culture, and the division of psyche and matter in art form.

Unfolding the Unconscious Psyche is a study of the creative arts and depth psychology, and the threads that run between the two. Edward Applebaum begins with works of art, in media including painting, music, literature and film, and pursues aspects of each towards an understanding of the unconscious psyche of the creator. By combining a study of the artistic work with the insight of depth psychology, Applebaum opens a dialogue between studies of works of art and their creators and the individuals who form the work’s audience. Each discussion is dictated by the artwork itself and is viewed from a variety of perspectives. Throughout the book the reader is encouraged to develop their own analytical technique: to follow the clues available, link threads together and analyse what they can see. The result demonstrates the value of dialogue in blending depth psychology with the arts, through examination of work by artists including Georgia O’Keefe, Ingmar Bergman, Frida Kahlo, Gustav Mahler and Virginia Woolf. Applebaum also seeks to correct misconceptions about the arts that have filtered into the study and practice of depth psychology since the earliest writings of Freud and Jung. This uniquely creative and insightful work will be absorbing reading for analytical and depth psychologists, students of analytical psychology, academics and scholars of the arts and anyone with an interest in the application of Jungian ideas.

In this original study Roy Huss utilizes less orthodox theories and recent advances in developmental psychology to illustrate the wealth of possibilities available to the critic who understands the artist as striving toward the integration of form and feeling. It advances in-depth analysis of a variety of literary, dramatic, and cinematic works, including Sophocles' Oedipus plays, John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, John Knowles's A Separate Peace, and Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

Il catalogo della mostra - pubblicato dalla nostra Casa Editrice - descrive attraverso affreschi, dipinti e suppellettili provenienti dai più importanti musei nazionali ed internazionali, insieme al grande affresco di Castel Sant'Angelo di Perin Del Vaga (metà XVI secolo) uno dei miti più affascinanti dell'antichità: la favola di Amore e Psiche narrata da Apuleio nell'Asino D'Oro (II sec. D.C). Il volume si compone di 11 saggi e 76 schede divise in quattro sezioni: le radici del mito, le personificazioni di Eros e Psiche, i patimenti dell'anima, la coppia divina e la Fabula di Apuleio; la favola di Amore e Psiche nel Rinascimento; la scena della lampada: il fascino irresistibile dell'amore misterioso ed in fine il revival romantico della favola in epoca neoclassica. Un percorso di grande valore artistico, ricco di significati simbolici che si sviluppano dall'antichità a Canova documentando questo straordinario mito.