Dancing with the unconscious : the art of psychoanalysis and the psychoanalysis of art

305 Pages·2012·2.93 MB·English

by  Knafo

Dancing
with
Unconscious
the
Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
Volume 14
PSYCHOANALYSIS IN A NEW KEY BOOK SERIES
DONNEL STERN
Series Editor
When music is played in a new key, the melody does not change, but the
notes that make up the composition do change in the context of continuity,
continuity that perseveres through change. “Psychoanalysis in a New Key”
publishes books that share the aims psychoanalysts have always had, but
that approach them differently. The books in the series are not expected to
advance any particular theoretical agenda, although to this date most have
been written by analysts from the Interpersonal and Relational orientations.
The most important contribution of a psychoanalytic book is the commu-
nication of something that nudges the reader’s grasp of clinical theory and
practice in an unexpected direction. “Psychoanalysis in a New Key” creates
a deliberate focus on innovative and unsettling clinical thinking. Because
that kind of thinking is encouraged by exploration of the sometimes sur-
prising contributions to psychoanalysis of ideas and findings from other
fields, “Psychoanalysis in a New Key” particularly encourages interdisci-
plinary studies. Books in the series have married psychoanalysis with dis-
sociation, trauma theory, sociology, and criminology. The series is open to
the consideration of studies examining the relationship between psycho-
analysis and any other field—for instance, biology, literary and art criti-
cism, philosophy, systems theory, anthropology, and political theory.
But innovation also takes place within the boundaries of psychoanalysis, and
“Psychoanalysis in a New Key” therefore also presents work that reformu-
lates thought and practice without leaving the precincts of the field. Books
in the series focus, for example, on the significance of personal values in psy-
choanalytic practice, on the complex interrelationship between the analyst’s
clinical work and personal life, on the consequences for the clinical situation
when patient and analyst are from different cultures, and on the need for
psychoanalysts to accept the degree to which they knowingly satisfy their
own wishes during treatment hours, often to the patient’s detriment.
PSYCHOANALYSIS IN A NEW KEY BOOK SERIES
DONNEL STERN
Series Editor
Vol. 14 Vol. 7
Dancing with the Unconscious Coasting in the Countertransference:
The Art of Psychoanalysis Conflicts of Self Interest
and the Psychoanalysis of Art between Analyst and Patient
Danielle Knafo Irwin Hirsch
Vol. 13 Vol. 6
Money Talks: Wounded by Reality:
In Therapy, Society, and Life Understanding and Treating
Brenda Berger & Stephanie Newman (eds.) Adult Onset Trauma
Ghislaine Boulanger
Vol. 12
Partners in Thought: Vol. 5
Working with Unformulated Experience, Prologue to Violence:
Dissociation, and Enactment Child Abuse, Dissociation,
Donnel B. Stern and Crime
Abby Stein
Vol. 11
Heterosexual Masculinities: Vol. 4
Contemporary Perspectives from Prelogical Experience:
Psychoanalytic Gender Theory An Inquiry into Dreams
Bruce Reis & Robert Grossmark (eds.) & Other Creative Processes
Edward S. Tauber & Maurice R. Green
Vol. 10
Sex Changes: Vol. 3
Transformations in Society The Fallacy of Understanding
and Psychoanalysis & The Ambiguity of Change
Mark J. Blechner Edgar A. Levenson
Vol. 9 Vol. 2
The Consulting Room and Beyond: What Do Mothers Want? Contemporary
Psychoanalytic Work and Its Reverberations Perspectives in Psychoanalysis
in the Analyst’s Life and Related Disciplines
Therese Ragen Sheila F. Brown (ed.)
Vol. 8 Vol. 1
Making a Difference in Patients’ Lives: Clinical Values:
Emotional Experience Emotions That Guide
in the Therapeutic Setting Psychoanalytic Treatment
Sandra Buechler Sandra Buechler

Dancing
with
Unconscious
the
The Art of Psychoanalysis
and the Psychoanalysis of Art
D K
anielle nafo
New York London
Cover Image: Oskar Kokoschka, Two Nudes (Lovers) (1913). Oil on canvas, 163.2 x 97.5 cm. Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston; Bequest of Sarah Reed Platt 1973.196. Photograph © 2012 Museum of Fine
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Library of Congress Cataloging‑in‑Publication Data
Knafo, Danielle.
Dancing with the unconscious : the art of psychoanalysis and the
psychoanalysis of art / Danielle Knafo.
p. cm. -- (Psychoanalysis in a new key ; v. 14)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-415-88100-5 (hbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-415-88101-2 (pbk. :
alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-203-84886-9 (e-book)
1. Psychoanalysis and art. 2. Psychoanalysis. I. Title. II. Series.
N72.P74K63 2012
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In loving memory of my father, Maurice Knafo, who loved to dance

Contents
Acknowledgments xi
List of Illustrations xiii
Introduction xvii
Part 1
the art of Psychoanalysis 1
1 Dancing with the Unconscious: The Art of Psychoanalysis 3
2 One Step Back, Two Steps Forward: Regression in the
Service of Art and Psychoanalysis 23
3 The Senses Grow Skilled in Their Craving: Thoughts on
Creativity and Substance Abuse 43
4 Creative Transformations of Trauma: Private Pain in the
Public Domain and the Clinical Setting 65
5 Alone Together: Solitude and the Creative Encounter in
Art and Psychoanalysis 91
Part 2
the Psychoanalysis of art 113
6 Dreams of Genius: Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung 115
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