The aesthetic domain of psychoanalysis : psychoanalysis, lyric poetry, and neuropsychoanalysis /
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2015
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Featherstone, Wayne Arthur,
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This thesis argues that poets and psychoanalysts alike must devise ways to represent what seems to be beyond the capacity of language to encompass or express, and that both tend to conceptualize the subject as an aesthetic construct. Poets must engage with questions of how the lyric ‘I’ is constituted: its ephemeral nature, its persistence, as well as its construction/de-construction and resistance to the resources of language. Analysts are engaged in a similar enterprise in locating the author of the text of the analytic relationship and discourse. I explore the way each of these fields of creative endeavour attempts to conceptualize the self, and also the way that each discipline must acknowledge and then accommodate to the limits of the mind, including its embodied nature. Some recent insights derived from the field of neuroscience are employed to mediate the discussion.
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University of South Australia. School of Communication, International Studies and Languages.
School of Communication, International Studies and Languages.
School of Communication, International Studies and Languages.
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Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2015.
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Copyright 2015 Wayne Featherstone.
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1 ethesis (262 pages) :
illustrations (some colour).
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 199-248)
illustrations (some colour).
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 199-248)
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