Research Catalog

Title

Opera on the couch : music, emotional life, and unconscious aspects of mind / edited by Steven H. Goldberg and Lee Rather.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Goldberg, Steven H.
• Rather, Lee

Description

xii, 224 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm

Summary

"In this widely ranging collection of essays, a group of contemporary psychoanalyst/authors turn their finely-honed listening skills and clinical experience to plumb the depths and illuminate themes of character, drama, myth, culture, and psychobiography in some of the world's most beloved operas. The richly diverse chapters are unified by a psychoanalytic approach to the nuances of unconscious mental life and emotional experience as they unfold synergistically in opera's music, words, and drama. Opera creates a unique bridge between thought and feeling, mind and body, and conscious and unconscious that offers fertile ground for psychological exploration of profound human truths. Each piece is written in a colorful and non-technical manner that will appeal to mental health professionals, musicians, academics, and general readers wishing better to understand and appreciate opera as an art form"--

Subject

• Opera > Psychological aspects
• Psychoanalysis and opera

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Psychoanalysis and Opera : A Felicitous Match / Steven H. Goldberg & Lee Rather -- The Internal World of Don Giovanni / Richard Rusbridger -- Across the Great Divide : Reflections on the Moral Reversal in Mozart's The Magic Flute / Lee Rather -- Lucia di Lammermoor : An Intersection of the Oral and Aural Roads / Julie Jaffee Nagel -- Transformation through the Other : Senta and The Flying Dutchman / L. Eileen Keller -- The Orpheus of all Secret Misery; The Expression of Profound Grief in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde / John J. H. Muller IV -- The Dark Matter of Wagner's Dream: Chaos and Creativity in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg / Jeanne C. Harasemovitch -- Evil as Sadistic Perversion in Tosca / Amy Tyson -- Sliding Walls and Glimpses of the Other in Puccini's Madama Butterfly / Steven H. Goldberg -- Elektra : Traumatic loss and the Impossibility of Mourning / Catherine Mallouh -- Yearning for intimacy : Bela Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle / Anna Balas MD -- Reflections on Applied Analysis and a Secret Program in Alban Berg's Wozzeck / Ralph Beaumont -- Janáček's Eternal Feminine : The Makropulos Affair / Adele Tutter -- Billy Budd : A Study in Envy and Repression / Milton Schaefer -- Sendak and Knussen's Where the Wild Things Are : A Developmental Journey / Debbie Hindle -- Appendix. Synopses of the Operas.

Call Number

JME 22-325

ISBN

• 9781032210766
• 1032210761
• 9781032210773
• 103221077X

LCCN

2021058220

OCLC

1287747248

Title

Opera on the couch : music, emotional life, and unconscious aspects of mind / edited by Steven H. Goldberg and Lee Rather.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Goldberg, Steven H., editor.

Rather, Lee, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Opera on the couch [1.] Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022 9781032271408 (DLC) 2021058221

Research Call Number

JME 22-325