By: Mark A. Elliot Abstract: In addressing this topic, the article will firstly give an introduction to the life and work of Francis Bacon, this is followed by a discussion of the meaning of distortion in a general sense, and then with specific reference to Bacon’s art. Prior to analyzing Bacon’s motivation to distort itContinue reading “Snarling into the Abyss: An analytical account of the psychological meaning of distortion in Francis Bacon’s (1909-1992) portraiture”
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Wordsworth’s prescient baby: Conceptions of the mother-infant relationship in the development of the Self 1790s-1890s
By: Emilia Halton-Hernandez Abstract: This article explores views of the mother-infant relationship and how it reveals conceptions of the self in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. William Wordsworth’s theory of the development of the self and mind in infancy in his 1799 Prelude (published 1850) is very much ahead of its time, anticipating twentiethContinue reading “Wordsworth’s prescient baby: Conceptions of the mother-infant relationship in the development of the Self 1790s-1890s”
Emanuel Swedenborg, Transpersonal Psychology and the Literary Text
By: Robert W. Rix Abstract: This article examines how Swedenborgianism linked the conscious and unconscious mind through the literary symbol. It has long warranted critical attention that Swedenborg, nearly two centuries before Jung, launched an exploration of archetypal images. What I will attempt below is a study of the reception history of Swedenborg, or, moreContinue reading “Emanuel Swedenborg, Transpersonal Psychology and the Literary Text”
Pedro Almodovar’s La Piel que Habito: A Psychoanalytical Study
By: Robert Silhol Abstract: The first idea, the first words that occur to me when asked to express my appreciation for Almodovar’s movie is a plain exclamation about the beauty of the heroine : « Quelle est belle ! » And since one of the rules of psychoanalysis is to let one’s associations run freely,Continue reading “Pedro Almodovar’s La Piel que Habito: A Psychoanalytical Study”
A Freudian Reading of John Fowles’ “The Ebony Tower”
By: Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar Abstract: Drawing on Freud’s three aspects of the psyche, this paper explores the two character-triangles in John Fowles’s “The Ebony Tower.” Henry Breasley, Anne and Diana on one hand and David Williams, Beth and Diana on the other are respectively tied up to the Ego, Super ego and Id. The paperContinue reading “A Freudian Reading of John Fowles’ “The Ebony Tower””
Into the Zone of the Interior: A Novel View of Anti-Psychiatry
By: Adrian Chapman Abstract: Zone of the Interior is a satirical novel by an American, Clancy Sigal, about 1960s British anti-psychiatry, in particular, R. D. Laing, the radical Scottish psychiatrist and his idea (shared most notably by David Cooper, another existential therapist working in England) that schizophrenic breakdown might be a natural, healing process. Sigal’sContinue reading “Into the Zone of the Interior: A Novel View of Anti-Psychiatry”