Psychoanalysis and sculpture, literature, creativity and symbolism

Date:
1960s-1980s
Reference:
PP/ROS/J/3/4
Part of:
The Archive of Ismond Rosen (1924-1996)
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Description

Papers relating to the psychoanalytical study of sculpture, including copies of Rosen's chapter 'A psycho-analytical study of sculpture' plus copy of the chapter in French, (published in Entretiens sur L'Art et la Psychanalyse, edited by A. Berge, A. Clancier, P. Ricouer and L.-H. Rubinstein, (Mouton, France, 1968); photocopies of magazine and newspaper articles on works by painter David Gryn (whose father was a Holocaust survivor) 1980s; Prado Museum brochures on the works of Goya and the works of Velazquez; off-print 'The enigma of Michelangelo's Pieta Rondanini: A study of Mother-loss in childhood' by Gerda Frank American Imago Vol. 23, No. 4 Winter 1966.

There are also some papers on psychoanalysis and literature and symbolism, including a typescript 'A brief survey of Freud's Theory of Symbolism', by Daphne Allan, c.1962; off-print of 'Freud's deja vu on the acropolis. A symbolic relic of 'mater nuda', by Harry Slochower (The Psychoanlaytic Quarterly Vol. 39 No.1, 1970) being an analysis of Freud's open letter to Romain Rolland by Freud 'A disturbance of memory on thh Acropolis'; photocopy of an article by Slochower 'The psychoanalytic approach to literature: some pitfalls and promises', from Literature and Psychology, Vol. 21 No. 2, 1971.

Plus some notes by Rosen on basic characteristics of creative [?individuals] and other notes on his own creativity; off-print 'On the relationship of transference and interpretation in psychoanalytic therapy' by John Klauber The International Journal of Psycho-analysis, Vol. 53, Part 2, 1972.

Publication/Creation

1960s-1980s

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