Before words : psychoanalytic listening to the unsaid through the medium of art /
Antonio Di Benedetto ; introduction by Fausto Petrella ; [English translation by Giuseppina Antinucci].
- x, 256 pages ; 24 cm
First published in Italian in 2001 by Franco Angeli, Italy--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255).
From the psychoanalysis of art to psychoanalysis from art -- Introduction -- Psychoanalytic approach to art -- Artistic thinking/psychoanalytic thinking : image, sound, word -- Sensibility projected towards transcendent meaning -- Ecstatic and aesthetic experience through the lens of psychoanalysis -- The relational character of art and psychoanalysis : search for further meaning in the other -- Aesthetic insight, a precursor of psychoanalytic thinking : artistic thinking -- Poetic knowledge as pre-scientific knowledge of the human mind -- Thinking, feeling and the pre-sentiment of thought -- Non-verbal communication -- The silly dancer (clinical case) -- Aesthetic insight illustrated by works of art : examples -- The Magic flute by Mozart : an aesthetic initiation to insight -- Pirandello's work : the impossible interpretation -- Psychoanalytic listening and musical listening -- Introduction -- Music and psychoanalysis : the language of the unconscious : to be investigated or constructed? -- Making the patient's mind play -- Listening "beyond words" in psychoanalytic practice -- The unconscious through music and vocalism, melodrama and psychoanalysis. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. II. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pt. III. 1. 2. Pt. IV. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.