On a Darkling Plain: Journeys into the Unconscious by Ivan Ward (Editor) › Visit Amazon's Ivan Ward Page search results for this author Ivan Ward (Editor), Oliver James (Introduction) (4-Feb-2002) Hardcover

by Ivan Ward

Using examples from art, film, literature and the lives of famous people, this book explains psychoanalytical thinking, its relevance to everyday life, and its ability to illuminate the nature of human society and culture.

Genres: Psychology

Unknown Binding

First published January 10, 1998

About the author

Ivan Ward is the Director of Education at the Freud Museum, London, the series editor of 'Ideas in Psychoanalysis' and author of 'Phobia' and 'Introducing Psychoanalysis'.

Reviews

[Ade Bailey · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book has ten essays on The Unconscious, Anxiety, Phantasy, Oedipus Complex, Guilt, Narcissism, Phobia, Eros, Libido, and Sublimation. They are all accessible to a layperson approaching psychoanalysis for the first time, and interesting to a reader with more knowledge and experience. My own interest is less in the therapy of psychoanalysis than the cultural dimensions of its application such as to the aesthetic, and morality. The essays on Eros, Libido, Sublimation and Anxiety I particularly recommend: complete as they are, they share common frames of reference. One particular bonus of the book is that running through it are various 'snippets' of aspects of Melanie Klein's
work, something of a godsend to the uninitiated or time-pressed.