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The soul of art : analysis and creation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gaillard, Christian, 1942- (Author)
Other Authors: Conrade, Anita (Translator), Rosen, David H., 1945- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the French.
Published: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Carolyn and Ernest Fay series in analytical psychology ; no. 20.
Subjects:
Jung, C. G. > (Carl Gustav), > 1875-1961 > Knowledge > Art.
Art > Psychology.
Emotions in art.
Psychoanalysis and art.
Art therapy.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / David H. Rosen
  • Introduction: Onward and upward? / Christian Gaillard
  • From the analyst's consulting room to prehistoric caves
  • An encounter in Herculaneum
  • Whatever happened to paradise?
  • From Durer to Cranach: melancholy in black and red
  • Narcissus crouching: from Ovid to Caravaggio
  • Who the heck is Bluebeard? The nineteenth century grapples with an ogre
  • A contemporary Bluebeard story
  • Jackson Pollock on the brink of the well: the challenge of figuration
  • Conclusion: Vessels are broken and a book opens
  • Notes.