Psychoanalysis Wikipedia Mon, 27 May 2019 05:21:00 GMT Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques related to the study of the unconscious mind, which together form a method of treatment for mental-health disorders. The discipline was established in the early 1890s by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud and stemmed partly from the clinical work of Josef Breuer and others. Psychoanalysis was later developed in different directions ... An analysis of research and literature on CREATIVITY IN ... Sat, 25 May 2019 13:37:00 GMT

Discourse on Hamlet and Hamlet: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry

The creative process—A psychoanalytic discussion

Psychiatrists have made many forays into literature for the purposes of theory building, clinical understanding, and teaching. Given how fascinating and fruitful such inquiries can be, one wonders why they have had a mostly episodic place in teaching. I submit that at least some limitations resulted from an emphasis on what I would loosely call “content” and, related to it, on comprehensive “formulations” of a single literary character. This paper argues instead for a shift in focus onto “process” and situations created by particular interactions between the characters. Rather than pursue “the psychology of the individual characters; what they are like, what makes them what they are, what intentions, often apparently not conscious, seem to motivate their actions and attitudes” (Silberger 1973), I would look instead at what characters do (what they say, what they appear to emote and think) in response to each others” speech and imputed feelings and designs. The give-and-take entailed in the collisi...

Hamlet as process: a novel approach to using literature in teaching psychiatry.

Limitations of method in psychoanalytic biography: a historical inquiry.

interpretation, psychoanalysis isa relative newcomer, only a century or so old. During thatcentury, there have been notable shifts in the mode of inter-preting the play, both in the critical world at large and in thenarrower psychoanalytic world. In part, changes in the psycho-analytic interpretation of the play have had to do with shifts indominant psychoanalytic paradigms—a process even morestriking in the history of interpretation of

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Hamlet and the Trauma Doctors: An Essay at Interpretation

This essay reviews the application of psychoanalysis to dramatic art. Four major areas are covered; studies of playwrights, studies of individual plays, studies of audience response, and studies of acting. Based on his studies of acting in live theatrical productions, the author offers three theorems to underscore the central role of unconscious enactment in the evolution of theatrical performance.

Discourse on Hamlet and Hamlet: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry

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The creative process—A psychoanalytic discussion

Hamlet as process: a novel approach to using literature in teaching psychiatry.

Limitations of method in psychoanalytic biography: a historical inquiry.

Hamlet and the Trauma Doctors: An Essay at Interpretation

Psychoanalysis and Dramatic Art

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