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Psychoanalyst, teacher, and scholar, Heinz Kohut was one of this century's most important intellectuals. A rebel, according to many mainstream psychoanalysts, Kohut challenged Freudian orthodoxy and the medical control of psychoanalysis in America. His success in treating narcissistic disorders and his highly influential book How Does Analysis Cure? established Kohut's Self Psychology as the strongest rival to traditional psychoanalysis today. The Curve of Life reveals Kohut's private and public life through a unique collection of lively and thoughtful correspondence with colleagues, public figures, family, and close friends. Over 300 never-before-published letters, drawn from Kohut's privat...
As historians rediscover human society to be as much about desire, fantasy, and irrationality as it is about interest, reality, and reason, the history of psychoanalytic thought takes on an increasing significance. Its growth and interconnection with other fields appealed to the eclectic and holistic interests of historians so much so that the term "psychohistory" was coined, admiringly, ambivalently, or perjoratively. The methodological intersection of psychology and history also helped move us toward a more inclusive social history through investigation of the institutional history of medical sciences of the mind. "Treating Mind and Body "examines the recent history of psychotherapy, psych...
The author, a German living in the USA, analyzes the guilt, anger, embarrassment, shame and anxiety experienced by third-generation Jews and Germans, and attempts to describe the processes by which these grandchildren of the Holocaust have moved towards a better relationship.
Ich lege Dir ein paar meiner allerneusten Gedichte bei, im Zuge der neuen lyrischen Einfachheit. Ich erhole mich von den verschlungnen Wirrnissen und Stürmen der letzten Zeit in einer neuen Klarheit des Sagens.
Ein einfühlsamer, bewegender Roman, erzählt aus Sicht des »Dichterkindes« Ruth Rilke 1957, ein Spätsommertag im Künstlerdorf Fischerhude bei Bremen: Im früheren Atelierhaus der Bildhauerin Clara Westhoff wird renoviert. Tochter Ruth ist nach vierzig Jahren mit ihrer Familie und dem Nachlass des weltberühmten Vaters Rainer Maria Rilke heimgekehrt. Draußen im Garten, am Ufer der Wümme, wo unter alten Weidenbäumen Eisvögel brüten, holen Ruth Erinnerungen ein, an die Kindheit und das bewegte Leben mit ihren Künstlereltern. Ein ergreifender Roman, der faszinierende Einblicke in das außergewöhnliche Verhältnis zwischen Rilke und seiner »kleinen großen Ruth« bietet. Mit vielen O...
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Symbolic statement in poetry assumes many forms, from readily understood «open» symbols to private or «closed» ones with highly personal meanings. «Negative spring, » the poet's rejection of what has traditionally been a joyous time of year, makes such a personal statement. This book examines a number of examples of negative spring; it seeks to locate the sources of the attitude, to examine its implications, and to establish its reliability as an indicator of crisis or despair. Closer examination of it in the work of Clemens Brentano and T.S. Eliot discloses many suggestive and even surprising parallels.