Psychoanalytic Explorations in Art

by Ernst Kris

Based on over 25 years of research in psychology of art & om clinical psychoanalysis, these essays allow readers to follow the development of the author's thought. The absence of generalities & the careful documentation of observations makes this book especially useful to artists & psychoanalysts.
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Approaches to art
The contribution of psychoanalysis & its limitations
Daydream & fiction
The aesthetic illusion
Magic, communication & identification
Creation & re-creation
The image of the artist
Psychological study of the role of tradition in ancient biographies
The art of the insane
Comments on spontaneous artistic creations by psychotics
Appendix: a psychotic artist of the Middle Ages
A psychotic sculptor of the 18th century
The function of drawings & the meaning of the creative spell in a schizophrenic artist (w/Else Pappenheim)
The comic
The psychology of caricature
The principles of caricature (w/E.H. Gombrich)
Ego development & the comic
Laughter as an expressive process: contributions to the psychoanalysis of expressive behavior
Problems of literary criticism
Aesthetic ambiguity (w/Abraham Kaplan)
Freudianism & the literary mind
Prince Hal's conflict
Psychology of creative processes
On inspiration
On preconscious mental processes
Bibliography
Bibliographical Note
Illustrations
Index

Genres: Art, Psychology, Essays, Nonfiction

358 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1952

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