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| | Product Details | | Author: | Daniel E Schneider | | Hardcover: | 306 pages | | Publisher: | Farrar, Straus | | Publication Date: | 1950 | | Package Length: | 8.4 inches | | Package Width: | 5.4 inches | | Package Height: | 1.2 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.0 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 2 reviews |
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The Psychoanalyst and the artist Nov 19, 2011
By Michael A. Galante
I'm quite intrigued as to the depths in which the Psychoanalyst will go to dissect the artist's conscious and subconscious thought process.
Apparently there's a lot more going on inside the subconscious mind of an artists then I could have ever imagined. And although I may not agree with some of the authors theories, there are many here worth exploring that may help to understand art in general and perhaps even unlock some creativity in my own work.
Here is a description of the book with a few passages I found insightful, pertaining to what it is to be an artist.
The major discovery of The Psychoanalyst and The Artist, which pursued clues Freud left us, was and is that human talent-genius configurations have the distinctly and exclusively human capacity - in an infinite number of ways - of 'turning a true dream inside out' and superimposing it and weaving it or interweaving it with the strands of the reality of our everyday life. Hence, in great art (or in quite another way in great science) we 'identify' and 'thrill to the comprehension at all articulate and inarticulate levels' of the thus .universalized dream presented in whatever medium of the seven arts and the innumerable divisions of human sciences.. .Talent has this ability in a dilute and occasional way. Genius possesses it in a steady torrent, though at times blocked and even twisted with frequently disastrous personal consequences, e.g. suicide.
Parallel to this distinction between intent and result is another distinction that must be drawn in the interest of defining what is treated here as art, the product of true artist. A true artist is an interpretive artist, consistently devoting his life to the exquisite and enduring expression of his own individual reality in relation to his world.
Yes you are an artist if you have an awareness of the unconscious and are sensitive to dreaming, above all aware of and sensitive to your own impermissible impulses and impossible ideas; if you Can quite shamelessly and vividly dream in symbols of great economic power; if you can weave together the radiances of those symbols (by design in what ever medium) in such a way and with such an interpretive relationship to reality that you create the elusion of something alive and something manifold so that each who comes to look at, listen to or touch your work feels himself caught in your dream-become-art; if he is stimulated and relieved via identification with your characters or symbolic objects, as you yourself were, in physical pleasures varying from relaxation to orgasmic experience, in spiritual enjoyment of the tragic , comic or contemplative.
But this answer is really only preliminary.
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Storyline .... Jun 17, 2002
Since Amazon didn't post an editorial review, here's the description from the cover to help you decide if this book is for you: "The major discover of The Psychoanalyst and the Artist, which pursued clues Freud left us, was and is that human talent-genius configurations have the distinctly and exclusively human capacity -- in an infinite number of ways -- of "turning a true dream inside out' and superimposing it and weaving it or interweaving it with the strans of the reality of our everyday life. Hence, in great art (or in quite antoerh way in great science) we 'identify' adn 'thrill to the comprehension at all articulate and inarticulate levels' of the thus universalized dream presented in whatever medium of teh seven arts and the innumerable divisions of human sciences ... Talent has this ability in a dilute and occasional way. Genius possesses it in a steady torrent, though at times blocked and even twisted with frequently disastrous personal consequences, e.g. suicide."
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