Why are we so fascinated by beauty? is a question many of us have asked ourselves, as have many who came before us. This book investigates the moment of ecstatic solitude in which everyone can experience emotions through films, works of art or natural phenomenon, when, even if for a "magic" instant, we feel "alive" and masters of our own Self.
Key Features
- Series of applied psychoanalytic essays on film, literature, and aesthetic pleasure.
- Exploration of the complexity of loss and mourning, destructivity, perversion, and revenge.
- Insights into facilitating transformation and leading a blocked healing process back to motion.
- Appeals to psychoanalysts, psychologists, teachers, students, and those interested in psychoanalysis and the arts.
Additional Information
This fascinating and insightful book will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychologists, teachers and students, and all those with an interest in psychoanalysis and the arts.
