Author: Leon Burnett File Type: pdf The editors find in psychoanalysis a natural and necessary ally for investigations in myth and myth-informed literature and the arts. At the same time the collection re-values myths and myth-based cultural products as vital aids to the discipline and practice of psychoanalysis. The volume spans a vast geo-cultural range and investigates cultural products from the Mahabharata to J. W. Goethes opus and eighteenth-century Japanese fiction, and from William Blakes visionary poetry to contemporary blockbuster television series. It encompasses mythic topics and figures such as Oedipus, Orpheus, the Scapegoat, and the Hero, while mobilizing Freudian, Jungian, object relations, and Lacanian psychoanalytic approaches. Bringing together an international array of both leading and emerging researchers, Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious provides an exceptionally rich overview of the concerns and exciting possibilities of this new interdisciplinary field while simultaneously contributing to scholarship on the literary texts and psychoanalytic concepts it evokes. **

Author: Paul Schimmel File Type: pdf Sigmund Freuds discovery of psychoanalysis explores links between Freuds development of his thinking and theory and his personal emotional journey. It follows his early career as a medical student, researcher and neurologist, and then as a psychotherapist, to focus on the critical period 1895-1900. During these years Freud submitted himself to the process that has become known as his self-analysis, and developed the core of his psychoanalytic theory. Drawing on Freuds letters to his friend and confidant Wilhelm Fliess, and on selected psychoanalytic writings in particular his dream of Irmas injection, Paul Schimmel formulates psychoanalytic dimensions to the biographical facts of Freuds life. In 1900 Freud wrote that he was not a thinker but a conquistador. In reality he was both, and was engaged in a lifelong emotional struggle to bring these contradictory sides of his personality into relationship. His psychoanalytic discoveries are conceptualized in the context of his need to achieve integration within his psyche, and in particular to forge a more creative collaboration between conquistador and thinker. ul l*l ul Sigmund Freuds discovery of psychoanalysis will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, academics and teachers of psychoanalysis, and to all serious students of the mind. **Review ** Schimmel offers a reading of Freud that is found in Freuds own words which adds an authenticity to his argument. He therefore has something important to say in the perennial question as to whether or not psychoanalysis is an art or ascienceThis is a thoughtful, well-researched book, which deserves to be read and added to the canon of Freudian literature that takes us. Alistair Ross, Oxford University*, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling* History is defined in many ways by many people. In 1906 William Osler said, History is simply the biography of the mind of man. The mind of man was deepened and we were given new ways to explore it by Freud. Keeping alive the spirit of open enquiry into the mind of man enriches all our lives. Paul Schimmels book makes a valuable contribution towards that ongoing study and I recommend this enjoyable and readable book. Maurice Whelan, Australasian Journal of Psychotherapy To maximize ones enrichment from Schimmels work one needs to have familiarity with the subjectexperienced readers of Freud, psychology historians, scholars, and clinicians interested in theory are those who will be most rewarded by this well-written, compact, very full treatment of critical periods and issues in the life and thinking of the founder of psychoanalysis. Thomas P. Kalman, Psychodynamic Psychiatry, March 2015 Paul Schimmel, in this concise volume, explores a particular tension in Freuds character and motivation between the conquistador and the thinker or man of science. A dialectical interplay between Freuds impassioned drive for discovery alongside a rational, deductive capacity for revision and reformulation of ideas is traced through his major ideas, from the Project through to Analysis terminable and interminable. His relationship with Fliess, studies with Charcot, self-analysis, dream of Irmas injection and ideas on mourning are also illuminated by this perspective. A fascinating, humanising study. Paul Williams, Training Analyst, British Psychoanalytical Society Joint Editor-in-Chief, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2001-2007 hr *Paul Schimmels wide scholarship adds intriguing perspectives on how, with the gradual integration of Freuds passionate will to greatness and his contained, intuitive reflective capacity, came increased self awareness and the discovery of the new universe of psychoanalysis, of the unconscious and transference.* Frances Thomson-Salo, Associate Professor Training Analyst Australian Psychoanalytical Society, and Honorary Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne** About the Author Paul Schimmel is a psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and writer. He is member of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society, and has a private psychoanalytic practice in Sydney

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Author: Peter Simonson File Type: pdf The Handbook of Communication History addresses central ideas, social practices, and media of communication as they have developed across time, cultures, and world geographical regions. It attends to both the varieties of communication in world history and the historical investigation of those forms in communication and media studies. The Handbook editors view communication as encompassing patterns, processes, and performances of social interaction, symbolic production, material exchange, institutional formation, social praxis, and discourse. As such, the history of communication cuts across social, cultural, intellectual, political, technological, institutional, and economic history. The volume examines the history of communication history the history of ideas of communication the history of communication media and the history of the field of communication. Readers will explore the history of the object under consideration (relevant practices, media, and ideas), review its manifestations in different regions and cultures (comparative dimensions), and orient toward current thinking and historical research on the topic (current state of the field). As a whole, the volume gathers disparate strands of communication history into one volume, offering an accessible and panoramic view of the development of communication over time and geographical places, and providing a catalyst to further work in communication history. About the AuthorPeter Simonson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Janice Peck is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UC Boulder. Robert T. Craig is Professor in the Department of Communication at UC Boulder. John P. Jackson, Jr., is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at UC Boulder.