Soul-Making: Interweaving Art and Analysis

by Francesco Donfrancesco, Diane Finiello Zervas (Editor)

Overview

The author examines artistic experience with the eye of an analyst and analytic experience with the eye of an artist. His writing is understood and practised as an operation, a process which seeks to merge the individual and the general, subjective and objective, the psychological and the spiritual.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855755192
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/25/2009
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Francesco Donfrancesco, Diane Finiello Zervas

Table of Contents

Preface — Introduction — Separation and Memory — In the Garden of Venus — The Imaginal Action — Towards a Living Reality — Life Inside Death — In the Interregnum — The Longing for a Mentor — Unity in Multiplicity — The Experience of Beauty — The Care of Art — Memory of the Invisible

Editorial Reviews

Donfrancesco’s book presents the reader with interwoven dimensions of scholarly, imagistic and analytical perspectives which produce a unique approach to the basic nature and functions of the psyche which, at the same time, has clinical relevance. The different themes culminate in the emergence of a fresh definition of analysis as the activity which dissolves fossilised structures so that they would die a natural death; only then new and more appropriate images may be reborn to facilitate the development of personality.

Renos K. Papadopoulos

Donfrancesco examines artistic experience with the eye of an analyst, and analytic experience with the eye of an artist. His writing is involved, understood and practiced as an operation, a process which, particularly through the use of image, seeks to merge the individual and the general, subjective and objective, the psychological and the spiritual. Beauty, for him, is the aim of all art; a beauty that mobilises Eros through the active myth-defining elements in a work of art, including the most contemporary creation, and thus supports the exchange of aesthetic emotion.

Christian Gaillard

Donfrancesco examines artistic experience with the eye of an analyst, and analytic experience with the eye of an artist. His writing is involved, understood and practiced as an operation, a process which, particularly through the use of image, seeks to merge the individual and the general, subjective and objective, the psychological and the spiritual. Beauty, for him, is the aim of all art; a beauty that mobilises Eros through the active myth-defining elements in a work of art, including the most contemporary creation, and thus supports the exchange of aesthetic emotion.”

“Donfrancesco’s book presents the reader with interwoven dimensions of scholarly, imagistic and analytical perspectives which produce a unique approach to the basic nature and functions of the psyche which, at the same time, has clinical relevance. The different themes culminate in the emergence of a fresh definition of analysis as the activity which dissolves fossilised structures so that they would die a natural death; only then new and more appropriate images may be reborn to facilitate the development of personality.

From the Publisher