Before words : psychoanalytic listening to the unsaid through the medium of art / Antonio Di Benedetto ; introduction by Fausto Petrella ; [English translation by Giuseppina Antinucci].

First published in Italian in 2001 by Franco Angeli, Italy--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255).

Pt. I. From the psychoanalysis of art to psychoanalysis from art -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Psychoanalytic approach to art -- 3. Artistic thinking/psychoanalytic thinking : image, sound, word -- 4. Sensibility projected towards transcendent meaning -- 5. Ecstatic and aesthetic experience through the lens of psychoanalysis -- 6. The relational character of art and psychoanalysis : search for further meaning in the other -- Pt. II. Aesthetic insight, a precursor of psychoanalytic thinking : artistic thinking -- 1. Poetic knowledge as pre-scientific knowledge of the human mind -- 2. Thinking, feeling and the pre-sentiment of thought -- 3. Non-verbal communication -- 4. The silly dancer (clinical case) -- Pt. III. Aesthetic insight illustrated by works of art : examples -- 1. The Magic flute by Mozart : an aesthetic initiation to insight -- 2. Pirandello's work : the impossible interpretation -- Pt. IV. Psychoanalytic listening and musical listening -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Music and psychoanalysis : the language of the unconscious : to be investigated or constructed? -- 3. Making the patient's mind play -- 4. Listening "beyond words" in psychoanalytic practice -- 5. The unconscious through music and vocalism, melodrama and psychoanalysis.

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