Women and Creativity: A Psychoanalytic Glimpse Through Art, Literature, and Social Structure

363 Pages·2014·1.18 MB·English

by  Laura Tognoli Pasquali, Frances Thomson-Salo

WOMEN AND CREATIVITY
Psychoanalysis & Women Series
Series Editor: Frances Thomson-Salo
Feminine Sensuality
Alcira Mariam Alizade
The Embodied Female
Edited by Alcira Mariam Alizade
Studies on Femininity
Edited by Alcira Mariam Alizade
Masculine Scenarios
Edited by Alcira Mariam Alizade
On Incest: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Edited by Giovanna Ambrosio
Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Alcira Mariam Alizade
Masculinity and Femininity Today
Edited by Ester Palerm Marí and Frances Thomson-Salo
WOMEN AND CREATIVITY
A Psychoanalytic Glimpse
Through Art, Literature, and
Social Structure
Edited by
Laura Tognoli Pasquali
and Frances Thomson-Salo
A volume in the Psychoanalysis & Women Series
for the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis
of the International Psychoanalytical Association
First published in 2014 by
Karnac Books Ltd
118 Finchley Road
London NW3 5HT
Copyright © 2014 to Laura Tognoli Pasquali and Frances Thomson-Salo for the
edited collection, and to the individual authors for their contributions.
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS xi
INTRODUCTION xix
Laura Tognoli Pasquali and Frances Thomson-Salo
PART I: CREATIVITY IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
CHAPTER ONE
Creativity and authenticity 3
Irma Brenman Pick
CHAPTER TWO
Discussion of “Creativity and authenticity” by Irma
Brenman Pick 15
Jordi Sala
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CHAPTER THREE
Listening, technique, and all that jazz 21
Barbie Antonis
CHAPTER FOUR
William, did you say, “Much Ado about Nothing”? 37
Juan Eduardo Tesone
CHAPTER FIVE
Discussion of “William, did you say: ‘Much Ado about Nothing’?”
by Juan Eduardo Tesone 51
Ingrid Moeslein-Teising
CHAPTER SIX
Female elements and functions in creativity 61
Maria Adelaide Lupinacci
CHAPTER SEVEN
Women and creativity 69
Maria Pia Conte
PART II: CREATIVITY IN PSYCHOANALYTIC
PRACTICE THROUGHOUT THE LIFE CYCLE
CHAPTER EIGHT
When creativity restarts: distorted and adaptive forms 79
Frances Thomson-Salo
CHAPTER NINE
A little girl’s analysis 91
Tonia Cancrini and Luisa Cerqua
CHAPTER TEN
A psychoanalyst in the labour room: the birth of emotions 103
Laura Tognoli Pasquali
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Generativity and creativity: dialogue between an obstetrician
and a psychoanalyst 111
Sandra Morano and Anna Maria Risso
CONTENTS vii
CHAPTER TWELVE
Dreaming about pregnancy when it is not there: two
clinical cases 123
Anna Barlocco
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
A particular kind of sterility 145
Jones De Luca
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Discussion of “A particular kind of sterility” by Jones
de Luca 163
Ester Palerm Mari
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
“With you I can bleat my heart out”—older women in
psychoanalytic practice 173
Christiane Schrader
PART III: CREATIVITY IN THE ARTS AND LITERATURE
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Using contents from a sewing box: some aspects of the
artwork of Sonia Delaunay and Louise Bourgeois 197
Maria Grazia Vassallo Torrigiani
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Commentary on Brodeuses 213
Maria Teresa Palladino
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
The voice of the mother in To the Lighthouse 221
Nadia Fusini
PART IV: LIVING CREATIVELY IN SOCIETY
CHAPTER NINETEEN
Happily ever after: depictions of coming of age
in fairy tales 237
Cecile R. Bassen
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CHAPTER TWENTY
Cultural altruism and masochism in women in the East 255
Jhuma Basak
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
Horses and other animals: some background obstacles
to female creativity in Russia 267
Marina Arutyunyan
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
Is healing possible for women survivors of domestic violence? 279
Nicoletta Livi Bacci
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
No peaceable woman: creativity in feminist political
psychoanalysis—commemorating Margarete
Mitscherlich-Nielsen (17.7.1917–12.6.2012) 287
Ingrid Moeslein-Teising, Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp,
Christiane Schrader, and Almuth Sellschopp
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
Should we as psychoanalysts apologise to women? 301
I. Maria Pia Conte
II. Laura Tognoli Pasquali
AFTERWORD 323
Frances Thomson-Salo
INDEX 325
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We dedicate this book to the memory of Alcira Mariam Alizade. She
was a most generous and tireless promoter of COWAP’s activities. Her
intelligence, passion, and vitality were invested in theoretical and clini-
cal studies of sexuality and gender, where her contribution was most
valued. Her original thinking, writing, and editorship of the Karnac
Women and Psychoanalysis book series, made her a significant person
for contemporary psychoanalysis. Mariam Alizade was very creative,
with many ideas that were yet to come.
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We wish to thank the authors who contributed so generously to this
book.
Lastly we thank the International Psychoanalytical Association for
their ongoing commitment to the work of the Committee on Women
and Psychoanalysis.
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