The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience

Self, Relationship and Culture
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-83622-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis Book Series

In The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience: Self, Relationship and Culture, George Hagman eloquently provides an overview of ideas regarding the aesthetic foundation of human experience and the way in which this aesthetic perspective can shed light on human development, culture, and analytic clinical process. 

The book discusses the relationship between the psychology of art and the aesthetics of psychoanalytic treatment. Hagman presents a comprehensive psychoanalytic model of the psychology of aesthetics, creativity, beauty, ugliness and the sublime, as well as a theory of aesthetics across the dimensions of subjectivity, self, intersubjectivity and culture. Starting from the point of early childhood development, he argues for the importance of exploring the implications of this important psychological phenomenon for clinical practice, highlighting how aesthetics can shed light on a dimension of the psychotherapeutic process which has thus been neglected.

This book is an illuminating and informative read for all psychoanalysts, and anyone interested in the intersection of psychoanalytic practice, aesthetics, creativity and culture.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hagman, George

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Carl Rotenberg with an addendum by George Hagman  Preface with an addendum for expanded edition  1. Introduction  2. Understanding Aesthetic Experience  3. The Development of Aesthetic Experience  4. Idealization and Aesthetic Experience  5. The Creative Process  6. The Sense of Beauty  7. On Ugliness  8. The Sublime  9. Art and Self  10. Art, Creativity and Clinical Process  11. Festival  12. The Musician and the Creative Process  13. Cruising Beauty  14. Hitler's Aesthetics  References  Subject Index  Author Index

Über Autor(innen)

George Hagman is a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst in private practice in Stamford, USA. He is on the faculty of the Training and Research Institute for Self-Psychology, and the Westchester Centre for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is the author of Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists (2016), Creative Analysis: Art, Creativity and Clinical process (2014) and The Artist's Mind: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Creativity, Modern Art and Modern Artists (2010).