TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meltzer,Donald
AU  - Williams,Meg Harris
ED  - Harris Meltzer Trust
TI  - The apprehension of beauty: the role of aesthetic conflict in development, art, and violence 
SN  -  9781912567089
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - The Harris Meltzer Trust
KW  - Psychoanalysis
KW  - Aesthetics
N1  - First published in 1988 by Clunie Press for The Roland Harris Educational Trust; Second edition published in 2008 by Karnac Books for The Harris Meltzer Trust. This revised edition published in 2018 by the Harris Meltzer Trust; Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword
Meg Harris Williams

Introduction
Donald Meltzer

1. The apprehension of beauty (1973)
Donald Meltzer

2. Aesthetic conflict: its place in development
Donald Meltzer

3. On first impressions
Donald Meltzer

4. On aesthetic reciprocity
Donald Meltzer

5. The role of the father in early development
Donald Meltzer

6. The problem of violence
Donald Meltzer

7. The undiscovered country: the shape of the aesthetic conflict in Hamlet
Meg Harris Williams
(i) The mould of form
(ii) The lobby of dreams
(iii) The Queen’s arras
(iv) The yet unknowing world

8. The place of aesthetic conflict in the analytic process
Donald Meltzer

9. The retreat from aesthetic conflict: cynicism, perversity and the vulgarisation of taste
Donald Meltzer

10. Recovery of the aesthetic object
Donald Meltzer

11. Holding the dream: the nature of aesthetic appreciation
Meg Harris Williams
(i) Aesthetic appreciation through symbolic congruence
(ii) Beneficence in space: Stokes on Turner
(iii) On Westminster Bridge

12. The shadows in the cave and the writing on the wall
Donald Meltzer

Addendum I: Concerning the social basis of art
Donald Meltzer and Adrian Stokes

Addendum II: Mindlessness – the developmental relation of psychosomatics, hyperactivity, and hallucinosis
Donald Meltzer

Afterword
Maria Rhode

References
Index

N2  - In this book Donald Meltzer formulates his concept of ‘aesthetic conflict’, at the heart of personality development. Clinical material interdigitates with literary criticism by Meg Harris Williams illustrating the same theme. The revised psychoanalytic model of the mind that results suggests how the aesthetic aspects of just being born can have simultaneously a most violent and a most tender impact upon the human mind. The impact of the aesthetic conflict is investigated by the two authors in work with patients, in creativity and art. They demonstrate how the psychoanalytical process itself stands as an artform; and how clinical material, dreams, artworks, poems and plays can all be connected to the aesthetic conflict
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