Research Catalog

Title

Dying and creating : a search for meaning / Rosemary Gordon.

Author

Gordon, Rosemary.

Publication

London ; New York : Karnac Books, 2000.

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Details

Description

xiii, 186 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"C. G. Jung devoted much attention to the psychology of death, re-birth and transformation: the author acknowledges her debt to him, to his creative spirit and to the depth of his understanding. As she is a working analytical psychologist, much of the material is hers. But she is also a theorist: the human and the academic come together." "Many Westerners in the course of their daily lives conceal their fears of death and so they deprive themselves of the possibility of getting into touch with the hidden sources of creativeness. Patients in analysis communicate some of their deepest feelings and thoughts about preparing for death, and grieving, and dying: Dr. Gordon shows implicitly in her book how the creative analyst enables understanding to grow, when symbolisation and creativeness are no longer hindered by paralysing fears. She suggests convincingly that there exists an interaction between various psychopathological states of mind on the one hand, and a person's relation to dying and to the creative processes on the other." "This book contains a discussion in depth of the psychology of these processes, and of symbolising. The philosophy of art is also shown by Rosemary Gordon to play an important part in working out the links between dying and creating."--Jacket

Series Statement

Library of analytical psychology

Uniform Title

Library of analytical psychology.

Subject

• Death > Psychological aspects
• Creative ability
• Meaning (Psychology)
• Jungian psychology
• Attitude to Death
• Creativity
• creativity
• Creative ability
• Death > Psychological aspects
• Jungian psychology
• Analytische Psychologie
• Tod

Note

• Includes index.
• "First published in 1978 by the Library of Analytical Psychology, London."--Title page verso

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-171) and index.

Contents

Social attitudes to death: a brief survey -- Freud, Jung and the death wish -- On the threshold of death: a pilot study of four dying patients -- The birth of death: some African stories -- Rites for the dead -- Psychopathological ways of dealing with death -- Symbols and symbol formation: the crux of meaningful dying and creating -- Reflections on clinical technique resulting from a review of the nature of symbolisation -- The nature of the creative process -- Psychological functions in the service of the creative process -- Hindrances to the creative process -- Death, creation and transformation: their intra-psychic interdependence -- Summary.

ISBN

• 1855752158
• 9781855752153

OCLC

• ocm45383452
• 45383452
• SCSB-9524510

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library