Literature and the Relational Self by Barbara Ann Schapiro PAPERBACK

Literature and the Relational SelfAuthor(s): Barbara Ann Schapiro\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814780220, 978-0814780220\nSynopsis\n\""Literature and the Relational Self is a tribute to the rich complexity of human nature?as poets, novelists, and relational models of contemporary psychoanalysis mutually attest.\""\n ?Psychoanalytic Psychologist\nWhile psychoanalytic relational perspectives have had a major impact on the clinical world, their value for the field of literary study has yet to be fully recognized. This important book offers a broad overview of relational concepts and theories, and it examines their implications for understanding literary and aesthetic experience as it reviews feminist applications of relational-model theories, and considers D. W. Winnicott's influential ideas about creativity and symbolic play.\nThe eight incisive essays in this volume apply these concepts to a clo.